E 5 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does E 5 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 5 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 5 Street name residential noise than any other category, 158 of them, and cleanliness ranks 1 among numbered streets. Residential noise accounts for 20% of the 795 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 142 reports, then rodent at 55. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,670 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 84 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on East 5 Street, 47 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (46 violations) and pests (40). The housing file lists 95 residential buildings on East 5 Street holding 1,670 homes, with 82 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 5 Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 89 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 37. That 37 on quietness puts East 5 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 82 and housing at 43 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 76 and transit 75, 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. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
30% of the 1,670 homes recorded on East 5 Street are rent-stabilized, 496 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 5 Street runs through East Village, 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).