E 103 Street, Manhattan: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does E 103 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 15, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 103 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 103 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 237 of them, and cleanliness ranks 3 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 103 Street holds 627 reports, and heat and hot water is 38% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 198 reports, then commercial noise at 152. The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. About 142 reports per 100 homes sit on East 103 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 103 Street carries 110 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 25 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on East 103 Street, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (42 violations) and paint and lead (33). The housing file lists 16 residential buildings on East 103 Street holding 443 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 28 homes each.
Since 2021, 40 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 103 Street ranks 17 on quietness and 8 on housing. East 103 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts traffic safety at 12 and infrastructure at 12 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 103 Street ranks 79 on transit and 66 on tree cover. East 103 Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 103 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
79% of the 443 homes recorded on East 103 Street are rent-stabilized, 350 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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E 103 Street runs through East Harlem, 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).