E 8 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does E 8 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 8 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (92) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 8 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 55 of them, and cleanliness ranks 33 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 8 Street holds 320 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 17% of it. Residential noise follows with 51 reports, and illegal parking with 34. Reports on East 8 Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 32 reports for every 100 homes on East 8 Street.
HPD has cited 26 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 8 Street, 10 violations of it. City housing records put 995 homes in 35 residential buildings on East 8 Street, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 28 homes to a building.
NYPD records 23 people injured in crashes on East 8 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 91, with housing at 59. That 59 on housing puts East 8 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 71 and quietness at 66 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 8 Street ranks 96 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
26% of the 995 homes recorded on East 8 Street are rent-stabilized, 253 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 8 Street runs through Greenwich Village and East Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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