E 3 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does E 3 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 3 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 3 Street, with 324 reports, and cleanliness ranks 20 among numbered streets. Across every category, 787 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (124 reports) and heat and hot water (83). In all, 81 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 3 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 3 Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 3 Street carries 52 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on East 3 Street, 41 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 27 more, and pests for 23. City housing records put 2,344 homes in 105 residential buildings on East 3 Street, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 29 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 22 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 29 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 94, with quietness at 32. A 32 on quietness places East 3 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 88 and housing at 66. Transit ranks 86 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 3 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
About 21% of the 2,344 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 500 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 3 Street runs through East Village, 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).