W 131 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does W 131 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 131 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (59) and transit (86). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 131 Street, with 660 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,401 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 47% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 190 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 114. The file runs across 68 distinct 311 categories in all. About 162 reports per 100 homes sit on West 131 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 131 Street carries 156 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 18 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 131 Street, 78 violations of it. Heat and hot water accounts for 60 more, and bed bugs for 58. The housing file lists 125 residential buildings on West 131 Street holding 866 homes, with 74 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.9 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 48, with housing at 13. A 13 on housing places West 131 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 36 and cleanliness at 13. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 79 and tree cover at 65. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 131 Street, at 86. West 131 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
19% of the 866 homes recorded on West 131 Street are rent-stabilized, 168 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.
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W 131 Street runs through Harlem and Manhattanville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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