E 4 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does E 4 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 4 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (86) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 4 Street name residential noise than any other category, 181 of them, and cleanliness ranks 20 among numbered streets. Across every category, 772 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (158 reports) and encampment (128). In all, 84 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 4 Street. Set against the 1,622 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 45 Class C violations on East 4 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 41 violations on file. Pests accounts for 33 more, and paint and lead for 29. 83 residential buildings on East 4 Street hold the 1,622 homes on file, 61 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 20 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 4 Street have injured 41 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 73, with quietness at 34. That 34 on quietness puts East 4 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 59 and housing at 51. Transit ranks 93 and tree cover 81, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 4 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where East 4 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
About 21% of the 1,622 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 336 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 4 Street runs through East Village and Greenwich 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).