E 40 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does E 40 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 85 out of 100.
Calm 84, 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 40 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (51) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against East 40 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 55 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 51 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Homeless person assistance is the most-filed, with 109 reports. Across every category, 257 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name homeless person assistance. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 46 reports, and vendor enforcement with 43. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 40 Street carries roughly 12 reports per 100 of them.
East 40 Street carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 10 residential buildings and 2,070 homes on East 40 Street, with 1 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 207 homes each.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 98, with cleanliness at 89. An 89 on cleanliness places East 40 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 96 and infrastructure at 90 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 52, 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. East 40 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 40 Street is parking, at 99.
21% of the 2,070 homes recorded on East 40 Street are rent-stabilized, 435 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 40 Street runs through Murray Hill and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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