W 130 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does W 130 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.

Calm 36, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts W 130 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (79) and transit (88). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.

On the record

Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 130 Street, with 33 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 130 Street holds 644 reports, and heat and hot water is 5% of it. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (33 reports) and illegal parking (26). The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 674 homes on file, that is about 96 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on West 130 Street carries 151 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 130 Street is pests, at 65 violations. Bed bugs follows at 51 violations, then paint and lead at 27. 108 residential buildings on West 130 Street hold the 674 homes on file, 81 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.2 homes each.

Reported crashes on West 130 Street have injured 22 people since 2021.

Among numbered streets, West 130 Street ranks 58 on infrastructure and 11 on housing. An 11 on housing places West 130 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 45 and quietness at 40. Food nearby ranks 78 and tree cover 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 130 Street ranks 88 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 130 Street is scored inside.

Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.

Rent stabilization covers about 33% of the 674 homes on file, 224 homes in all.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

W 130 Street runs through Manhattanville and Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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