E 15 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 81 out of 100. How does E 15 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 81 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 15 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and transit (96). Quietness (56) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 15 Street name encampment than any other category, 127 of them. Across every category, 308 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name encampment. After that the file runs to illegal parking (97 reports) and residential noise (78). Reports on East 15 Street span 59 distinct 311 categories. About 27 reports per 100 homes sit on East 15 Street, counting every category.
East 15 Street carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 30 residential buildings and 1,161 homes on East 15 Street, with 13 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 39 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 15 Street ranks 88 on infrastructure and 67 on traffic safety. That 67 on traffic safety puts East 15 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 77 and parking at 77 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 15 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where East 15 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
About 9% of the 1,161 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 100 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 15 Street runs through Gramercy and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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