E 16 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does E 16 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 16 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (70) and transit (98). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 16 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 25 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Encampment is the most-filed, with 98 reports. Across every category, 287 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name encampment. Illegal parking follows with 67 reports, and vehicle noise with 52. In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 16 Street. About 163 reports per 100 homes sit on East 16 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 13 residential buildings and 176 homes on East 16 Street, with 5 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Among numbered streets, East 16 Street ranks 46 on infrastructure and 9 on traffic safety. A 9 on traffic safety places East 16 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 21 and quietness at 10 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 98 and tree cover 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 16 Street ranks 98 on transit, 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 16 Street is housing, at 70.
The housing file puts 24% of the 176 homes on East 16 Street in rent stabilization, 43 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 16 Street runs through Gramercy 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).