W 132 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does W 132 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 132 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (83) and transit (83). Cleanliness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 132 Street, with 213 reports, and cleanliness ranks 22 among numbered streets. Across every category, 782 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 116 reports, and unsanitary condition with 81. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,213 homes on file, that is about 64 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 104 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 132 Street, 75 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 57 more, and doors for 27. 128 residential buildings on West 132 Street hold the 1,213 homes on file, 83 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9.5 homes each.
NYPD records 43 people injured in crashes on West 132 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 132 Street ranks 71 on infrastructure and 22 on housing. That 22 on housing puts West 132 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 38 and quietness at 32. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and tree cover at 68. West 132 Street ranks 83 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 132 Street is parking, at 83.
About 57% of the 1,213 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 690 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 132 Street runs through Harlem and Manhattanville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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