E 46 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 88 out of 100. How does E 46 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 88 out of 100.
Calm 88, 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 46 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (100) and food nearby (97). Tree cover (54) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East 46 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 46 Street have injured 38 people, and traffic safety ranks 69 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Noise is the most-filed, with 43 reports. The whole 311 file on East 46 Street holds 257 reports, and noise is 17% of it. Homeless person assistance is the next most-filed at 42 reports, then vendor enforcement at 34. In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 46 Street. About 14 reports per 100 homes sit on East 46 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 12 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 19 residential buildings on East 46 Street holding 1,818 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 96 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 99 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 69. That 69 on traffic safety puts East 46 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 97 and quietness at 88 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 94 and tree cover 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 46 Street ranks 97 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 46 Street is cleanliness, at 100.
The housing file puts 13% of the 1,818 homes on East 46 Street in rent stabilization, 235 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 46 Street runs through East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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