E 76 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does E 76 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.

Calm 72, 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 76 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (83) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (44) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 76 Street, with 105 reports, and cleanliness ranks 44 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 76 Street holds 552 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 82 reports, then commercial noise at 44. Reports on East 76 Street span 74 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 26 reports for every 100 homes on East 76 Street.

Inspectors have written 27 Class C violations on East 76 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 76 Street is pests, at 17 violations. Heat and hot water follows at 17 violations, then bed bugs at 12. 77 residential buildings on East 76 Street hold the 2,086 homes on file, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 19 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 27 homes each.

Reported crashes on East 76 Street have injured 35 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 80 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 66. A 66 on quietness places East 76 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 77 on the same scale, with housing at 74. Against every street in the city, East 76 Street ranks 84 on transit and 83 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 76 Street is scored inside.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.

The housing file puts 14% of the 2,086 homes on East 76 Street in rent stabilization, 287 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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

E 76 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

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