E 56 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 89 out of 100. How does E 56 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 89 out of 100.
Calm 88, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 56 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and food nearby (95). Traffic safety (75) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against East 56 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 56 Street have injured 46 people, and traffic safety ranks 75 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 37 reports. The whole 311 file on East 56 Street holds 255 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. Noise is the next most-filed at 19 reports, then heat and hot water at 18. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,581 homes on file, that is about 10 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 13 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is electrical, with 12 violations on file. 22 residential buildings on East 56 Street hold the 2,581 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 14 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 117 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 96 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 78. East 56 Street sits in the strongest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 93 on the same scale, with housing at 93. Transit ranks 93 and tree cover 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 56 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 2,581 homes on file, 172 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 56 Street runs through East Midtown and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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