E 68 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 84 out of 100. How does E 68 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 84 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 68 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (96) and transit (96). Parking (62) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 68 Street. 28 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 64 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 128 reports. Across every category, 292 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Taxi complaint is the next most-filed at 20 reports, then heat and hot water at 19. In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 68 Street. The 311 file works out to about 24 reports for every 100 homes on East 68 Street.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on East 68 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 47 residential buildings and 1,217 homes on East 68 Street, with 4 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 90 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 64. A 64 on traffic safety places East 68 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 85 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 73. Against every street in the city, East 68 Street ranks 93 on food nearby and 81 on tree cover. East 68 Street ranks 96 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 1,217 homes on file, 173 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 68 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).