E 28 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does E 28 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 28 Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and food nearby (95). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Helicopter noise leads the 311 file on East 28 Street, with 807 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 28 Street holds 1,746 reports, and helicopter noise is 46% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (286 reports) and residential noise (170). Reports on East 28 Street span 83 distinct 311 categories. About 87 reports per 100 homes sit on East 28 Street, counting every category.
East 28 Street carries 70 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 28 Street, 32 violations of it. Doors follows at 25 violations, then structure at 21. PLUTO counts 34 residential buildings and 2,013 homes on East 28 Street, with 13 walk-ups and 12 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 59 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 28 Street have injured 45 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 80 among numbered streets and housing ranks 47. A 47 on housing places East 28 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 77 and traffic safety at 66. Against every street in the city, East 28 Street ranks 78 on transit and 63 on tree cover. East 28 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 28 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
35% of the 2,013 homes recorded on East 28 Street are rent-stabilized, 703 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 28 Street runs through 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).