E 51 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does E 51 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 51 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and food nearby (99). Infrastructure (46) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 51 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 64 of them. The whole 311 file on East 51 Street holds 418 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. After that the file runs to noise (51 reports) and residential noise (47). In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 51 Street. About 31 reports per 100 homes sit on East 51 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 51 Street carries 19 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 51 Street is bed bugs, at 17 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 16 violations. PLUTO counts 57 residential buildings and 1,348 homes on East 51 Street, with 21 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 24 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 51 Street have injured 37 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 51 Street ranks 75 on housing and 50 on cleanliness. That 50 on cleanliness puts East 51 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 60 and traffic safety at 58 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 51 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.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 51 Street is parking, at 85.
About 5% of the 1,348 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 64 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 51 Street runs through East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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