E 42 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does E 42 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 69, 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 42 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and food nearby (100). Traffic safety (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 42 Street. 142 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 17 among numbered streets. Homeless person assistance is the most-filed complaint on East 42 Street, with 338 reports. Across every category, 606 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 56% of them name homeless person assistance. After that the file runs to for hire vehicle complaint (89 reports) and taxi complaint (87). Reports on East 42 Street span 59 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 32 reports for every 100 homes on East 42 Street.
East 42 Street carries 2 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. The housing file lists 5 residential buildings on East 42 Street holding 1,915 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 383 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 97 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 71. That 71 on quietness puts East 42 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 85 and infrastructure at 80 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 42 Street ranks 99 on transit and 54 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 42 Street, at 100. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 42 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
The housing file puts 1% of the 1,915 homes on East 42 Street in rent stabilization, 4 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 42 Street runs through Murray Hill, East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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