E 66 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does E 66 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 85 out of 100.
Calm 80, 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 66 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and transit (96). Parking (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 66 Street, with 556 reports, and parking ranks 27 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,012 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name illegal parking. Noise is the next most-filed at 45 reports, then residential noise at 26. In all, 71 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 66 Street. The 311 file works out to about 41 reports for every 100 homes on East 66 Street.
The HPD file on East 66 Street carries 18 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 66 Street, 19 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (18 violations) and structure (12). 64 residential buildings on East 66 Street hold the 2,471 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 66 Street holds about 39 homes.
Since 2021, 38 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 88 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 73. That 73 on cleanliness puts East 66 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 85 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 80. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 94 and tree cover at 84. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 66 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 2,471 homes on file, 380 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 66 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).