E 116 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does E 116 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 116 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and food nearby (92). Street crime (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 116 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 333 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 19% of the 1,784 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 179 reports, then unsanitary condition at 142. Reports on East 116 Street span 89 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,270 homes on file, that is about 140 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 338 Class C violations on East 116 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 27 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 116 Street, 235 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (178 violations) and structure (125). PLUTO counts 144 residential buildings and 1,270 homes on East 116 Street, with 73 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. The average building on East 116 Street holds about 8.8 homes.
Since 2021, 216 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 116 Street ranks 76 on infrastructure and 10 on traffic safety. East 116 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 33 and housing at 17. Transit ranks 85 and tree cover 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 116 Street ranks 92 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
About 53% of the 1,270 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 668 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 116 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).