E 9 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does E 9 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.

Calm 69, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.

That puts E 9 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (94) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (39) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on East 9 Street name residential noise than any other category, 167 of them, and cleanliness ranks 39 among numbered streets. Across every category, 909 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name residential noise. Commercial noise follows with 155 reports, and heat and hot water with 137. Reports on East 9 Street span 87 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 36 reports for every 100 homes on East 9 Street.

Inspectors have written 78 Class C violations on East 9 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 9 Street is pests, at 42 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 36 more, and paint and lead for 35. PLUTO counts 125 residential buildings and 2,555 homes on East 9 Street, with 87 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 20 homes each.

NYPD records 33 people injured in crashes on East 9 Street since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 91 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 41. A 41 on quietness places East 9 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 89 on the same scale, with housing at 66. The citywide frame puts transit at 90 and tree cover at 84. East 9 Street ranks 99 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 9 Street is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 9 Street is infrastructure, at 94.

Rent stabilization covers about 20% of the 2,555 homes on file, 524 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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

E 9 Street runs through East Village and Greenwich Village, 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).

The full report for East 9 Street