E 50 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 81 out of 100. How does E 50 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 81 out of 100.
Calm 75, 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 50 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (58) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 50 Street. 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 61 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Noise is the most-filed, with 56 reports. Across every category, 290 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (49 reports) and residential noise (45). The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,446 homes on file, that is about 20 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on East 50 Street carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on East 50 Street, 20 violations of it. Pests accounts for 14 more, and paint and lead for 11. 74 residential buildings on East 50 Street hold the 1,446 homes on file, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 50 Street holds about 20 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 92 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 61. East 50 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts housing at 87 and parking at 85 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 66, 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 50 Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
The housing file puts 11% of the 1,446 homes on East 50 Street in rent stabilization, 159 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 50 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).