E 30 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does E 30 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.

Calm 67, 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 30 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (90) and food nearby (97). Quietness (25) is the weak spot.

On the record

Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on East 30 Street, with 335 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,018 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Helicopter noise follows with 262 reports, and encampment with 192. In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 30 Street. Set against the 2,779 homes on file, that is about 37 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on East 30 Street carries 13 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 30 Street, 30 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (21 violations) and paint and lead (12). City housing records put 2,779 homes in 92 residential buildings on East 30 Street, 39 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 30 homes to a building.

Since 2021, 62 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Among numbered streets, East 30 Street ranks 86 on infrastructure and 66 on traffic safety. That 66 on traffic safety puts East 30 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 84 and cleanliness at 75 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 30 Street ranks 90 on transit and 70 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.

The housing file puts 5% of the 2,779 homes on East 30 Street in rent stabilization, 141 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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

E 30 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).

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