E 90 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does E 90 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 90 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 90 Street, with 162 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 90 Street holds 414 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 77 reports, then rodent at 70. In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 90 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 90 Street carries roughly 20 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on East 90 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 26 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (20 violations) and paint and lead (20). City housing records put 2,029 homes in 88 residential buildings on East 90 Street, 58 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 17 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 90 Street have injured 31 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 90 Street ranks 89 on infrastructure and 68 on quietness. East 90 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 86 and traffic safety at 79. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 84 and transit at 83. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. East 90 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
About 16% of the 2,029 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 320 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 90 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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