E 45 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does E 45 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 77, 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 45 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and food nearby (100). Traffic safety (52) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 45 Street. 31 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 52 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 457 reports. Homeless person assistance is the next most-filed at 38 reports, then noise at 34. Reports on East 45 Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 877 homes on file, that is about 24 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on East 45 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on East 45 Street, 10 violations of it. 11 residential buildings on East 45 Street hold the 877 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 45 Street holds about 80 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 93 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 57. A 57 on cleanliness places East 45 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 84 and parking at 84 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. East 45 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is where East 45 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
The housing file puts 4% of the 877 homes on East 45 Street in rent stabilization, 32 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 45 Street runs through East Midtown and 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).