E 54 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 91 out of 100. How does E 54 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 91 out of 100.
Calm 91, 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 54 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and food nearby (97). Tree cover (72) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 54 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 118 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 38% of the 311 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (83 reports) and residential noise (49). The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,006 homes on file, that is about 10 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 11 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is structure, with 15 violations on file. Pests follows at 11 violations. City housing records put 3,006 homes in 32 residential buildings on East 54 Street, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 14 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 54 Street holds about 94 homes.
Since 2021, 38 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 96 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 85. East 54 Street sits in the strongest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 94 and cleanliness at 86. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 72, 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 54 Street, at 97. East 54 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where East 54 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 97.
About 6% of the 3,006 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 168 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 54 Street runs through East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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