E 62 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does E 62 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 62, 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 62 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (90) and transit (97). Traffic safety (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against East 62 Street. 82 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 24 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 299 of them. Across every category, 539 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 41 reports, and noise with 29. The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,103 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on East 62 Street, 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 pests, with 23 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (21 violations) and bed bugs (16). 119 residential buildings on East 62 Street hold the 1,103 homes on file, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9.3 homes each.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 83, with parking at 43. That 43 on parking puts East 62 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 70 and infrastructure at 47. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 62 Street is quietness, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 1,103 homes on file, 98 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 62 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).