E 108 Street, Manhattan: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does E 108 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 11, 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 E 108 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (29) and food nearby (90). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on East 108 Street, with 104 reports. Across every category, 517 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 88 reports, then heat and hot water at 80. Reports on East 108 Street span 56 distinct 311 categories. About 168 reports per 100 homes sit on East 108 Street, counting every category.
East 108 Street carries 23 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 33 violations on file. Pests follows at 29 violations, then structure at 15. 18 residential buildings on East 108 Street hold the 308 homes on file, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 108 Street have injured 35 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 18, with quietness at 4. That 4 on quietness puts East 108 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 16 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 7. The citywide frame puts transit at 86 and tree cover at 57. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 108 Street, at 90. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 108 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where East 108 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 29.
Rent stabilization covers about 48% of the 308 homes on file, 148 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 108 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).