W 136 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does W 136 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 136 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (63) and transit (94). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 136 Street, with 305 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 136 Street holds 1,569 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 217 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 112. Reports on West 136 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 137 reports for every 100 homes on West 136 Street.
Inspectors have written 271 Class C violations on West 136 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 24 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 136 Street, 150 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 112 violations, then doors at 103. City housing records put 1,149 homes in 148 residential buildings on West 136 Street, 90 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 7.8 homes each.
Since 2021, 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 36 among numbered streets and housing ranks 8. An 8 on housing places West 136 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 21 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 13. Against every street in the city, West 136 Street ranks 83 on food nearby and 75 on tree cover. West 136 Street ranks 94 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where West 136 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 63.
26% of the 1,149 homes recorded on West 136 Street are rent-stabilized, 296 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 136 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).