E 117 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 117 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 117 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (77) and food nearby (90). Street crime (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 117 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 160 of them. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 14% of the 1,114 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (156 reports) and illegal parking (149). In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 117 Street. The 311 file works out to about 91 reports for every 100 homes on East 117 Street.
HPD has cited 119 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 117 Street, 138 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 105 more, and doors for 60. The housing file lists 109 residential buildings on East 117 Street holding 1,224 homes, with 70 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
NYPD records 68 people injured in crashes on East 117 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 117 Street ranks 44 on parking and 25 on housing. That 25 on housing puts East 117 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 42 and traffic safety at 30 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 82 and tree cover 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. East 117 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
About 50% of the 1,224 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 605 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 117 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).