E 44 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 86 out of 100. How does E 44 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 86 out of 100.
Calm 86, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 44 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (100) and food nearby (98). Tree cover (50) is the weak spot.
On the record
Noise leads the 311 file on East 44 Street, with 245 reports. The whole 311 file on East 44 Street holds 372 reports, and noise is 66% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 78 reports, then heat and hot water at 52. Reports on East 44 Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. About 18 reports per 100 homes sit on East 44 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 44 Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 2,029 homes in 13 residential buildings on East 44 Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 156 homes each.
Since 2021, 31 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 98, with quietness at 56. A 56 on quietness places East 44 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 98 and traffic safety at 81. Against every street in the city, East 44 Street ranks 96 on transit and 50 on tree cover. East 44 Street ranks 98 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 44 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where East 44 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 100.
Rent stabilization covers about 38% of the 2,029 homes on file, 719 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 44 Street runs through East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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