E 70 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 89 out of 100. How does E 70 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 89 out of 100.
Calm 88, 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 70 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and food nearby (94). Housing (80) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 70 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 65 of them. The whole 311 file on East 70 Street holds 361 reports, and illegal parking is 18% of it. For hire vehicle complaint follows with 34 reports, and residential noise with 23. Reports on East 70 Street span 74 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 15 reports for every 100 homes on East 70 Street.
Inspectors have written 24 Class C violations on East 70 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 70 Street is pests, at 11 violations. The housing file lists 87 residential buildings on East 70 Street holding 2,399 homes, with 24 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 28 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 37 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 92 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 81. East 70 Street sits in the strongest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 89 and cleanliness at 88. Transit ranks 93 and tree cover 85, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 70 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 70 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 70 Street is quietness, at 94.
13% of the 2,399 homes recorded on East 70 Street are rent-stabilized, 323 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 70 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).