E 36 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does E 36 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 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 36 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (100) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on East 36 Street, with 60 reports, and cleanliness ranks 39 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 36 Street holds 313 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 19% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (53 reports) and street condition (45). In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 36 Street. Set against the 1,493 homes on file, that is about 21 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on East 36 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 15 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 10 more. PLUTO counts 51 residential buildings and 1,493 homes on East 36 Street, with 19 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 29 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 36 Street have injured 54 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 87, with traffic safety at 43. A 43 on traffic safety places East 36 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 73 on the same scale, with quietness at 56. Against every street in the city, East 36 Street ranks 95 on transit and 66 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 36 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 1,493 homes on file, 175 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 36 Street runs through Murray Hill and Midtown, 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).