E 81 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does E 81 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 85 out of 100.
Calm 81, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 81 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 81 Street, with 151 reports, and cleanliness ranks 39 among numbered streets. Across every category, 627 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 104 reports, then rodent at 60. In all, 93 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 81 Street. The 311 file works out to about 22 reports for every 100 homes on East 81 Street.
East 81 Street carries 58 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 paint and lead, with 38 violations on file. Pests accounts for 37 more, and bed bugs for 29. 151 residential buildings on East 81 Street hold the 2,913 homes on file, 80 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 25 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 81 Street holds about 19 homes.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 81 Street ranks 96 on parking and 66 on housing. That 66 on housing puts East 81 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 89 and quietness at 78 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 92 and tree cover 85, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 81 Street, at 96. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 81 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 81 Street is traffic safety, at 96.
19% of the 2,913 homes recorded on East 81 Street are rent-stabilized, 548 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 81 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).