E 87 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does E 87 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 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 87 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and transit (95). Cleanliness (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 87 Street name residential noise than any other category, 60 of them, and cleanliness ranks 31 among numbered streets. Residential noise accounts for 14% of the 441 reports on file here. After that the file runs to noise (51 reports) and illegal parking (50). In all, 74 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 87 Street. About 17 reports per 100 homes sit on East 87 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 87 Street carries 23 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on East 87 Street, 10 violations of it. The housing file lists 115 residential buildings on East 87 Street holding 2,637 homes, with 46 walk-ups and 17 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 87 Street have injured 23 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 87 Street ranks 91 on parking and 84 on housing. An 84 on housing places East 87 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 86 and quietness at 84. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 95 and tree cover at 85. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 87 Street, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 87 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where East 87 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 2,637 homes on file, 256 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 87 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).