E 21 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does E 21 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 52, 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 21 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 21 Street, with 207 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among numbered streets. Across every category, 353 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 59% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 103 reports, and illegal parking with 45. The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 21 Street carries roughly 41 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 21 Street, 15 violations of it. Structure accounts for 12 more. City housing records put 871 homes in 42 residential buildings on East 21 Street, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 21 Street have injured 43 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 21 Street ranks 90 on infrastructure and 32 on quietness. A 32 on quietness places East 21 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 70 and traffic safety at 33. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 21 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 871 homes on file, 191 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 21 Street runs through Gramercy and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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