E 20 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does E 20 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 20 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (72) and food nearby (94). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 20 Street name residential noise than any other category, 169 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Residential noise accounts for 23% of the 736 reports on file here. Encampment follows with 135 reports, and illegal parking with 86. Reports on East 20 Street span 68 distinct 311 categories. About 111 reports per 100 homes sit on East 20 Street, counting every category.
East 20 Street carries 16 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. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on East 20 Street, 12 violations of it. City housing records put 661 homes in 29 residential buildings on East 20 Street, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 20 Street holds about 23 homes.
Reported crashes on East 20 Street have injured 59 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 20 Street ranks 65 on parking and 17 on traffic safety. A 17 on traffic safety places East 20 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 43 and infrastructure at 19. Transit ranks 90 and tree cover 85, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 20 Street, at 94. East 20 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is where East 20 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 72.
8% of the 661 homes recorded on East 20 Street are rent-stabilized, 56 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 20 Street runs through Gramercy and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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