E 104 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does E 104 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 104 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (82) and food nearby (85). Street crime (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 104 Street, with 210 reports. Across every category, 592 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (133 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (62). In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 104 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 104 Street carries roughly 67 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 77 Class C violations on East 104 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 104 Street is heat and hot water, at 35 violations. Doors accounts for 32 more, and pests for 24. City housing records put 881 homes in 44 residential buildings on East 104 Street, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 20 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 56 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 104 Street ranks 82 on parking and 18 on quietness. An 18 on quietness places East 104 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 58 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 20. Transit ranks 81 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 104 Street, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 104 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 82.
Rent stabilization covers about 34% of the 881 homes on file, 299 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
- E 103 Street, Manhattan
- E 102 Street, Manhattan
- E 101 Street, Manhattan
- E 100 Street, Manhattan
- 3 Avenue, Manhattan
- Lexington Avenue, Manhattan
E 104 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).