E 106 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does E 106 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 106 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (86) and food nearby (91). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against East 106 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 106 Street have injured 142 people, and traffic safety ranks 9 among numbered streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 106 Street, with 93 reports. The whole 311 file on East 106 Street holds 562 reports, and illegal parking is 17% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 59 reports, then heat and hot water at 57. Reports on East 106 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. About 34 reports per 100 homes sit on East 106 Street, counting every category.
East 106 Street carries 74 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 32 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 26 violations, then heat and hot water at 20. City housing records put 1,644 homes in 35 residential buildings on East 106 Street, 25 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 106 Street holds about 47 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 78 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 41. A 41 on cleanliness places East 106 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 74 on the same scale, with housing at 43. Transit ranks 76 and tree cover 63, 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 106 Street, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 106 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
About 11% of the 1,644 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 187 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 106 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).