E 47 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does E 47 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 47 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and food nearby (98). Quietness (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on East 47 Street, with 114 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 336 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to vendor enforcement (51 reports) and homeless person assistance (48). The file runs across 57 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 47 Street carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on East 47 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 10 residential buildings on East 47 Street holding 802 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 80 homes to a building.
NYPD records 34 people injured in crashes on East 47 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 47 Street ranks 83 on cleanliness and 38 on traffic safety. A 38 on traffic safety places East 47 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 79 and infrastructure at 74 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. East 47 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 47 Street is housing, at 98.
Of the 802 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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 47 Street runs through East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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