E 83 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 80 out of 100. How does E 83 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 80 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 83 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 83 Street, with 137 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among numbered streets. Across every category, 814 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 102 reports, and residential noise with 86. In all, 86 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 83 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 83 Street carries roughly 24 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 87 Class C violations on East 83 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 83 Street is doors, at 50 violations. Paint and lead follows at 47 violations, then pests at 43. The housing file lists 157 residential buildings on East 83 Street holding 3,453 homes, with 105 walk-ups and 27 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 22 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 94, with housing at 60. That 60 on housing puts East 83 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 90 on the same scale, with quietness at 77. Against every street in the city, East 83 Street ranks 90 on transit and 83 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 83 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 83 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 3,453 homes on file, 488 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 83 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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