E 26 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does E 26 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 26 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (88) and food nearby (94). Infrastructure (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 26 Street, with 60 reports. The whole 311 file on East 26 Street holds 418 reports, and heat and hot water is 14% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 51 reports, and encampment with 49. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 761 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 37 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 26 Street, 30 violations of it. Doors accounts for 18 more, and pests for 16. PLUTO counts 39 residential buildings and 761 homes on East 26 Street, with 19 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 20 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 26 Street have injured 54 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 26 Street ranks 49 on housing and 18 on traffic safety. East 26 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts cleanliness at 47 and quietness at 27 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 26 Street ranks 71 on transit and 71 on tree cover. East 26 Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 26 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where East 26 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 88.
43% of the 761 homes recorded on East 26 Street are rent-stabilized, 328 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 26 Street runs through Murray Hill, Midtown South and Gramercy, 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).