E 43 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does E 43 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 43 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and food nearby (99). Traffic safety (41) is the weak spot.
On the record
Homeless person assistance leads the 311 file on East 43 Street, with 96 reports. Across every category, 195 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name homeless person assistance. After that the file runs to illegal parking (57 reports) and noise (40). Reports on East 43 Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 452 homes on file, that is about 43 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on East 43 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 8 residential buildings on East 43 Street hold the 452 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 57 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 43 Street have injured 18 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 84 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 60. That 60 on quietness puts East 43 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 82 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 78. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 43 Street is housing, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 452 homes on file, 16 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 43 Street runs through Murray Hill, Midtown and East 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).