E 22 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does E 22 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 85 out of 100.
Calm 82, 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 22 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and food nearby (96). Quietness (64) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 22 Street, with 69 reports. Across every category, 320 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to noise (40 reports) and residential noise (37). In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 22 Street. The 311 file works out to about 16 reports for every 100 homes on East 22 Street.
East 22 Street carries 15 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is heat and hot water, with 17 violations on file. City housing records put 1,954 homes in 46 residential buildings on East 22 Street, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 42 homes to a building.
NYPD records 25 people injured in crashes on East 22 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 96, with cleanliness at 65. A 65 on cleanliness places East 22 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 86 and traffic safety at 85 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 72, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 22 Street ranks 96 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 22 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
8% of the 1,954 homes recorded on East 22 Street are rent-stabilized, 149 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 22 Street runs through Gramercy and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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