E 55 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 80 out of 100. How does E 55 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 80 out of 100.
Calm 74, 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 55 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and food nearby (98). Quietness (60) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 55 Street, with 118 reports. Across every category, 369 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 34 reports, and for hire vehicle complaint with 34. In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 55 Street. Set against the 1,298 homes on file, that is about 28 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on East 55 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 31 residential buildings on East 55 Street hold the 1,298 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 42 homes each.
Since 2021, 36 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 55 Street ranks 87 on cleanliness and 60 on infrastructure. A 60 on infrastructure places East 55 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 79 and traffic safety at 60 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 55 Street ranks 96 on transit and 68 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 55 Street is housing, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 1,298 homes on file, 226 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 55 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).