E 79 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 88 out of 100. How does E 79 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 88 out of 100.
Calm 88, 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 79 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and food nearby (95). Traffic safety (76) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East 79 Street. 68 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 76 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 78 of them. Across every category, 436 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Street condition is the next most-filed at 59 reports, then encampment at 49. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. About 10 reports per 100 homes sit on East 79 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 17 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 79 Street is pests, at 21 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 21 more, and bed bugs for 14. City housing records put 4,412 homes in 79 residential buildings on East 79 Street, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 39 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 56 homes each.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 96, with cleanliness at 81. An 81 on cleanliness places East 79 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 93 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 83. Against every street in the city, East 79 Street ranks 84 on tree cover and 83 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 79 Street is parking, at 98.
16% of the 4,412 homes recorded on East 79 Street are rent-stabilized, 702 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 79 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).