E 61 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does E 61 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 61 Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and transit (97). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 61 Street, with 125 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among numbered streets. Across every category, 434 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (125 reports) and residential noise (47). In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 61 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 61 Street carries roughly 46 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 37 Class C violations on East 61 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 61 Street, 32 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bathroom (18 violations) and structure (18). City housing records put 953 homes in 99 residential buildings on East 61 Street, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 61 Street have injured 54 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 61 Street ranks 74 on parking and 27 on traffic safety. East 61 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts housing at 60 and infrastructure at 42 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 61 Street ranks 97 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 61 Street is quietness, at 75.
15% of the 953 homes recorded on East 61 Street are rent-stabilized, 142 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 61 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).