E 74 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does E 74 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 79, 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 74 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (96) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (49) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 74 Street, with 122 reports, and cleanliness ranks 49 among numbered streets. Across every category, 569 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (94 reports) and noise (90). Reports on East 74 Street span 82 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 74 Street carries roughly 24 reports per 100 of them.
East 74 Street carries 42 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 23 violations on file. Doors follows at 18 violations, then bed bugs at 16. 127 residential buildings on East 74 Street hold the 2,367 homes on file, 45 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 23 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 19 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 74 Street have injured 31 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 85, with housing at 67. A 67 on housing places East 74 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 84 on the same scale, with quietness at 83. The citywide frame puts transit at 84 and tree cover at 81. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 74 Street, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 74 Street is infrastructure, at 86.
The housing file puts 14% of the 2,367 homes on East 74 Street in rent stabilization, 326 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 74 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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