E 78 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does E 78 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 78 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 78 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 170 of them, and cleanliness ranks 8 among numbered streets. Across every category, 759 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (75 reports) and residential noise (69). The file runs across 82 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,891 homes on file, that is about 26 reports per 100 homes.
East 78 Street carries 66 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 52 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 31 violations, then bed bugs at 28. The housing file lists 162 residential buildings on East 78 Street holding 2,891 homes, with 76 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
Since 2021, 22 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 78 Street ranks 87 on infrastructure and 65 on housing. East 78 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. Parking ranks 84 on the same scale, with quietness at 78. Against every street in the city, East 78 Street ranks 86 on tree cover and 78 on transit. East 78 Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 78 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 28% of the 2,891 homes on file, 819 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 78 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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