W 139 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 139 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 35, 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 139 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and transit (88). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 139 Street, with 808 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,970 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (510 reports) and residential noise (374). The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,717 homes on file, that is about 115 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 409 Class C violations on West 139 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 24 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 205 violations on file. Pests follows at 199 violations, then heat and hot water at 155. 124 residential buildings on West 139 Street hold the 1,717 homes on file, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 139 Street have injured 44 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 54, with housing at 10. West 139 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 45 on the same scale, with quietness at 17. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 79 and food nearby at 72. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. West 139 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 61% of the 1,717 homes on file, 1,040 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 139 Street runs through Harlem and Hamilton Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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