E 72 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 93 out of 100. How does E 72 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 93 out of 100.
Calm 93, 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 72 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and food nearby (95). The lowest of the ten is parking (83).
On the record
More 311 reports on East 72 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 242 of them, and parking ranks 83 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 47% of the 513 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 87 reports, then residential noise at 42. In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 72 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 72 Street carries roughly 11 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 11 violations on file. 92 residential buildings on East 72 Street hold the 4,516 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 32 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 49 homes each.
NYPD records 37 people injured in crashes on East 72 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 97, with traffic safety at 91. A 91 on traffic safety places East 72 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 95 and cleanliness at 91. The citywide frame puts transit at 93 and tree cover at 87. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 72 Street, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 72 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 97.
6% of the 4,516 homes recorded on East 72 Street are rent-stabilized, 259 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 72 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).