E 59 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does E 59 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 61, 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 59 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and transit (98). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 59 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 59 Street have injured 84 people, and traffic safety ranks 8 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 37 reports. The whole 311 file on East 59 Street holds 262 reports, and illegal parking is 14% of it. Street condition follows with 30 reports, and residential noise with 28. Reports on East 59 Street span 63 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 40 reports for every 100 homes on East 59 Street.
East 59 Street carries 9 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 10 violations on file. 28 residential buildings on East 59 Street hold the 652 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 23 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 82 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 42. East 59 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 74 and parking at 74 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where East 59 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 84.
The housing file puts 14% of the 652 homes on East 59 Street in rent stabilization, 89 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 59 Street runs through Upper East Side, 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).