E 14 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does E 14 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.

Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.

That puts E 14 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (93) and food nearby (96). Street crime (16) is the weak spot.

On the record

Encampment leads the 311 file on East 14 Street, with 791 reports. Across every category, 1,154 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 69% of them name encampment. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 165 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 155. Reports on East 14 Street span 88 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,918 homes on file, that is about 40 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on East 14 Street carries 90 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 14 Street, 39 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 36 violations, then bed bugs at 23. City housing records put 2,918 homes in 71 residential buildings on East 14 Street, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 41 homes each.

NYPD records 104 people injured in crashes on East 14 Street since 2021.

Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 80, with cleanliness at 34. That 34 on cleanliness puts East 14 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 62 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 49. The citywide frame puts transit at 95 and tree cover at 85. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 14 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Parking is where East 14 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 93.

12% of the 2,918 homes recorded on East 14 Street are rent-stabilized, 350 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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

E 14 Street runs through Gramercy, East Village and Midtown South, 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).

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