E 86 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does E 86 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 85 out of 100.
Calm 82, 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 86 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and food nearby (94). Quietness (69) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 86 Street, with 156 reports. Across every category, 721 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 99 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 88. The file runs across 93 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 86 Street carries roughly 19 reports per 100 of them.
East 86 Street carries 17 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 12 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 10 violations. City housing records put 3,831 homes in 63 residential buildings on East 86 Street, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 36 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 61 homes to a building.
NYPD records 71 people injured in crashes on East 86 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 93, with traffic safety at 73. That 73 on traffic safety puts East 86 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 86 and cleanliness at 80 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 91 and tree cover 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. East 86 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
About 7% of the 3,831 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 252 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 86 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).