E 52 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 86 out of 100. How does E 52 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 86 out of 100.
Calm 82, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 52 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and food nearby (98). Tree cover (69) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 52 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 113 of them. The whole 311 file on East 52 Street holds 437 reports, and illegal parking is 26% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 63 reports, then noise at 45. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,699 homes on file, that is about 26 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 38 Class C violations on East 52 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 55 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (17 violations) and paint and lead (17). PLUTO counts 57 residential buildings and 1,699 homes on East 52 Street, with 18 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 30 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 52 Street have injured 36 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 86, with traffic safety at 73. That 73 on traffic safety puts East 52 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 83 and parking at 74. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 52 Street ranks 98 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 52 Street is cleanliness, at 89.
About 11% of the 1,699 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 191 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 52 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).