E 23 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does E 23 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 23 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (97). Traffic safety (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against East 23 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 168 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 11 among numbered streets. Noise draws more reports than anything else here, 107 of them. The whole 311 file on East 23 Street holds 632 reports, and noise is 17% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 103 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 70. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,597 homes on file, that is about 40 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 46 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 26 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 26 violations, then doors at 13. 24 residential buildings on East 23 Street hold the 1,597 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 23 Street holds about 67 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 77 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 29. A 29 on cleanliness places East 23 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 55 and quietness at 40. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 74, 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 23 Street, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where East 23 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 97.
The housing file puts 27% of the 1,597 homes on East 23 Street in rent stabilization, 433 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 23 Street runs through Gramercy, Murray Hill 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).