E 2 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does E 2 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 63, 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 2 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 2 Street, with 163 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among numbered streets. Across every category, 586 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 83 reports, and noise with 66. In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 2 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 2 Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
East 2 Street carries 41 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 2 Street, 50 violations of it. Doors accounts for 39 more, and paint and lead for 26. 87 residential buildings on East 2 Street hold the 1,719 homes on file, 51 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 20 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 2 Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 96 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 46. That 46 on quietness puts East 2 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 91 on the same scale, with housing at 51. Against every street in the city, East 2 Street ranks 88 on transit and 78 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 2 Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 2 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 1,719 homes on file, 555 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 2 Street runs through East Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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