E 17 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does E 17 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 37, 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 17 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (71) and transit (96). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 17 Street name park noise than any other category, 97 of them, and cleanliness ranks 9 among numbered streets. Park noise accounts for 18% of the 530 reports on file here. After that the file runs to encampment (62 reports) and obstruction (54). The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. About 96 reports per 100 homes sit on East 17 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 16 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 18 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (13 violations) and bed bugs (12). PLUTO counts 54 residential buildings and 552 homes on East 17 Street, with 27 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 10 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 32 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 17 Street ranks 69 on infrastructure and 12 on quietness. That 12 on quietness puts East 17 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 57 and traffic safety at 26 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 17 Street, at 96. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 17 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 17 Street is parking, at 71.
About 31% of the 552 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 167 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
- Irving Place, Manhattan
- E 19 Street, Manhattan
- E 18 Street, Manhattan
- E 16 Street, Manhattan
- Union Sq E, Manhattan
- Gramercy Park S, Manhattan
E 17 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).