E 18 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does E 18 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 18 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (87) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 18 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 165 of them, and cleanliness ranks 36 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water accounts for 53% of the 312 reports on file here. Plumbing is the next most-filed at 67 reports, then illegal parking at 40. In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 18 Street. The 311 file works out to about 28 reports for every 100 homes on East 18 Street.
HPD has cited 20 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 18 Street is bed bugs, at 14 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 11 violations. City housing records put 1,134 homes in 81 residential buildings on East 18 Street, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 18 Street holds about 14 homes.
NYPD records 25 people injured in crashes on East 18 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 81 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 67. A 67 on infrastructure places East 18 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 70 and housing at 70. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 18 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where East 18 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 87.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 1,134 homes on file, 133 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 18 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).