W 134 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does W 134 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 134 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (75) and transit (91). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on West 134 Street, with 290 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among numbered streets. Across every category, 946 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 122 reports, then heat and hot water at 101. The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 688 homes on file, that is about 138 reports per 100 homes.
West 134 Street carries 144 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 21 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 134 Street, 109 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 81 violations, then structure at 72. PLUTO counts 55 residential buildings and 688 homes on West 134 Street, with 41 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
NYPD records 34 people injured in crashes on West 134 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 134 Street ranks 52 on infrastructure and 8 on housing. That 8 on housing puts West 134 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 27 and quietness at 8. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 72 and tree cover at 70. West 134 Street ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 75.
The housing file puts 47% of the 688 homes on West 134 Street in rent stabilization, 318 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 136 Street, Manhattan
- W 131 Street, Manhattan
- W 132 Street, Manhattan
- W 138 Street, Manhattan
- W 137 Street, Manhattan
- W 130 Street, Manhattan
W 134 Street runs through Harlem and Manhattanville, 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).