W 135 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does W 135 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 135 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (67) and transit (87). Quietness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on West 135 Street, with 520 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 2,583 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 389 reports, then illegal parking at 265. Reports on West 135 Street span 87 distinct 311 categories. About 116 reports per 100 homes sit on West 135 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 311 Class C violations on West 135 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 135 Street, 239 violations of it. Pests accounts for 203 more, and doors for 145. 81 residential buildings on West 135 Street hold the 2,227 homes on file, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 135 Street holds about 27 homes.
NYPD records 158 people injured in crashes on West 135 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 64 among numbered streets and housing ranks 13. That 13 on housing puts West 135 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 32 and traffic safety at 14. Against every street in the city, West 135 Street ranks 83 on tree cover and 75 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 135 Street, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 135 Street is parking, at 67.
About 52% of the 2,227 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,156 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 135 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).