E 38 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does E 38 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 79, 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 38 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and food nearby (97). Traffic safety (48) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against East 38 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 67 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 48 among numbered streets. The 311 file on East 38 Street is led by illegal parking, with 100 reports. Across every category, 333 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 70 reports, and encampment with 59. In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 38 Street. The 311 file works out to about 16 reports for every 100 homes on East 38 Street.
Inspectors have written 10 Class C violations on East 38 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 38 Street is bed bugs, at 10 violations. PLUTO counts 55 residential buildings and 2,083 homes on East 38 Street, with 10 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 38 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 93, with cleanliness at 73. East 38 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 91 and parking at 86. The citywide frame puts transit at 94 and tree cover at 67. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 38 Street, at 97. East 38 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 38 Street is infrastructure, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 6% of the 2,083 homes on file, 126 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 38 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).