E 85 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 80 out of 100. How does E 85 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 85 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (94) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Noise leads the 311 file on East 85 Street, with 73 reports, and cleanliness ranks 38 among numbered streets. Across every category, 639 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name noise. Illegal parking follows with 63 reports, and heat and hot water with 60. In all, 79 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 85 Street. Set against the 2,980 homes on file, that is about 21 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 61 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 24 violations on file. Doors follows at 22 violations, then structure at 19. PLUTO counts 113 residential buildings and 2,980 homes on East 85 Street, with 68 walk-ups and 27 elevator buildings among them. The average building on East 85 Street holds about 26 homes.
NYPD records 40 people injured in crashes on East 85 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 89 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 66. That 66 on quietness puts East 85 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 80 on the same scale, with housing at 72. Transit ranks 89 and tree cover 85, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 85 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 85 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 2,980 homes on file, 399 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 85 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).