E 49 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 79 out of 100. How does E 49 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 79 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 49 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and food nearby (99). Infrastructure (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 49 Street name street condition than any other category, 133 of them. Street condition accounts for 44% of the 304 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal parking (88 reports) and residential noise (35). In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 49 Street. About 21 reports per 100 homes sit on East 49 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 49 Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 49 Street, 12 violations of it. Structure follows at 11 violations, then bed bugs at 10. 49 residential buildings on East 49 Street hold the 1,444 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 29 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 49 Street have injured 63 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 93, with traffic safety at 37. East 49 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 87 and cleanliness at 85. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 49 Street ranks 99 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where East 49 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 1,444 homes on file, 117 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 49 Street runs through East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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