E 6 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does E 6 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 6 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on East 6 Street, with 335 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 6 Street holds 972 reports, and residential noise is 34% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 148 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 54. Reports on East 6 Street span 70 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 6 Street carries roughly 55 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 103 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 6 Street is pests, at 55 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (42 violations) and bed bugs (31). The housing file lists 122 residential buildings on East 6 Street holding 1,764 homes, with 97 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
NYPD records 29 people injured in crashes on East 6 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 82, with quietness at 20. East 6 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 80 on the same scale, with housing at 49. Tree cover ranks 80 and transit 70, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. East 6 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where East 6 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
The housing file puts 28% of the 1,764 homes on East 6 Street in rent stabilization, 490 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 6 Street runs through East Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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