E 39 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does E 39 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 78, 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 39 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (41) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East 39 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 72 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 41 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 56 reports. Across every category, 279 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Homeless person assistance follows with 44 reports, and noise with 43. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 39 Street carries roughly 15 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 13 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 39 Street is pests, at 12 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 11 more. City housing records put 1,878 homes in 35 residential buildings on East 39 Street, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 54 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 94, with infrastructure at 79. That 79 on infrastructure puts East 39 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 89 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 84. Against every street in the city, East 39 Street ranks 95 on transit and 66 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where East 39 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 16% of the 1,878 homes on file, 302 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 39 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).