E 53 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 81 out of 100. How does E 53 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 81 out of 100.
Calm 76, 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 53 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (51) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 53 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 48 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 51 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Homeless person assistance is the most-filed, with 57 reports. Across every category, 291 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name homeless person assistance. Illegal parking follows with 44 reports, and encampment with 39. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. About 21 reports per 100 homes sit on East 53 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 53 Street carries 10 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 53 Street is pests, at 10 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 10 violations. City housing records put 1,400 homes in 44 residential buildings on East 53 Street, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 53 Street holds about 32 homes.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 92, with cleanliness at 62. East 53 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 89 and housing at 86. The citywide frame puts transit at 96 and tree cover at 66. East 53 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.
Parking is where East 53 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 1,400 homes on file, 109 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 53 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).