E 88 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does E 88 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 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 88 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (40) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 88 Street, with 114 reports, and cleanliness ranks 40 among numbered streets. Across every category, 573 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 85 reports, then rodent at 72. Reports on East 88 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,925 homes on file, that is about 20 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 43 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 88 Street, 23 violations of it. Behind it the file holds structure (23 violations) and paint and lead (22). PLUTO counts 106 residential buildings and 2,925 homes on East 88 Street, with 70 walk-ups and 25 elevator buildings among them. The average building on East 88 Street holds about 28 homes.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on East 88 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 93, with housing at 73. A 73 on housing places East 88 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 87 and parking at 83. The citywide frame puts transit at 92 and tree cover at 83. East 88 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 88 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
17% of the 2,925 homes recorded on East 88 Street are rent-stabilized, 474 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 88 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).