E 89 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 79 out of 100. How does E 89 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 79 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 89 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 89 Street name residential noise than any other category, 109 of them, and cleanliness ranks 18 among numbered streets. Across every category, 623 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 106 reports, and heat and hot water with 70. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,765 homes on file, that is about 23 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 59 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 89 Street is paint and lead, at 46 violations. Pests follows at 39 violations, then doors at 26. 105 residential buildings on East 89 Street hold the 2,765 homes on file, 68 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
NYPD records 25 people injured in crashes on East 89 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 89 Street ranks 92 on traffic safety and 63 on housing. East 89 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 90 and quietness at 73 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 89 Street ranks 89 on transit and 84 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 89 Street, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 89 Street is parking, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 2,765 homes on file, 381 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 89 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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