E 57 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade A, 88 out of 100. How does E 57 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade A, livability 88 out of 100.

Calm 85, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.

That puts E 57 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (100) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (52) is the weak spot.

On the record

Crashes are the mark against East 57 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 57 Street have injured 88 people, and traffic safety ranks 52 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 45 of them. Across every category, 307 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 35 reports, and residential noise with 30. The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. About 10 reports per 100 homes sit on East 57 Street, counting every category.

Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on East 57 Street, 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 paint and lead, with 10 violations on file. City housing records put 3,197 homes in 48 residential buildings on East 57 Street, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 25 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 57 Street holds about 67 homes.

Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 97, with infrastructure at 84. That 84 on infrastructure puts East 57 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 96 and housing at 96. The citywide frame puts transit at 97 and tree cover at 77. East 57 Street ranks 98 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 57 Street is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 57 Street is cleanliness, at 100.

3% of the 3,197 homes recorded on East 57 Street are rent-stabilized, 96 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 57 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).

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