E 71 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does E 71 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 71 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (77) and food nearby (93). Quietness (45) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 71 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 74 of them. The whole 311 file on East 71 Street holds 406 reports, and illegal parking is 18% of it. After that the file runs to noise (24 reports) and street condition (22). In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 71 Street. The 311 file works out to about 40 reports for every 100 homes on East 71 Street.
The HPD file on East 71 Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 71 Street, 18 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 10 violations. 89 residential buildings on East 71 Street hold the 1,007 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 71 Street ranks 75 on housing and 45 on infrastructure. East 71 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Parking ranks 73 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 70. Against every street in the city, East 71 Street ranks 86 on transit and 82 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 71 Street, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where East 71 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 75.
About 19% of the 1,007 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 189 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 71 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).