E 109 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does E 109 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 28, 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 109 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (70) and food nearby (87). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 109 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 390 of them. The whole 311 file on East 109 Street holds 817 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 48% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 159 reports, then residential noise at 120. The file runs across 58 distinct 311 categories in all. About 138 reports per 100 homes sit on East 109 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 109 Street carries 181 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 30 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 109 Street, 73 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 66 more, and doors for 49. City housing records put 594 homes in 45 residential buildings on East 109 Street, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 109 Street have injured 38 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 67 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 15. East 109 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Traffic safety ranks 24 on the same scale, with quietness at 15. Transit ranks 85 and tree cover 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 109 Street ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 109 Street is parking, at 70.
65% of the 594 homes recorded on East 109 Street are rent-stabilized, 384 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 109 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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