E 69 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 90 out of 100. How does E 69 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 90 out of 100.
Calm 90, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 69 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and transit (95). Cleanliness (74) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 69 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 84 of them, and cleanliness ranks 74 among numbered streets. Across every category, 358 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 34 reports, then heat and hot water at 28. Reports on East 69 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 17 reports for every 100 homes on East 69 Street.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on East 69 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 2,167 homes in 81 residential buildings on East 69 Street, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 69 Street holds about 27 homes.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on East 69 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 94, with parking at 77. East 69 Street sits in the strongest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 94 and infrastructure at 91 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 69 Street ranks 92 on food nearby and 81 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 69 Street, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where East 69 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
4% of the 2,167 homes recorded on East 69 Street are rent-stabilized, 93 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 69 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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