E 48 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does E 48 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 67, 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 48 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (94) and food nearby (99). Traffic safety (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 48 Street. 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 38 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Noise is the most-filed, with 55 reports. Across every category, 263 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name noise. Illegal parking follows with 46 reports, and vendor enforcement with 41. Reports on East 48 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 28 reports for every 100 homes on East 48 Street.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 952 homes in 35 residential buildings on East 48 Street, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 48 Street holds about 27 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 87 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 47. That 47 on quietness puts East 48 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 86 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 72. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 48 Street, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 48 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 952 homes on file, 94 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 48 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).