E 91 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does E 91 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 64, 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 91 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (94) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 91 Street, with 52 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 91 Street holds 375 reports, and illegal parking is 14% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (48 reports) and rodent (38). Reports on East 91 Street span 76 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 91 Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 91 Street carries 25 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 91 Street is doors, at 15 violations. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water, at 11 violations. 77 residential buildings on East 91 Street hold the 1,104 homes on file, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 91 Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 91 Street ranks 83 on infrastructure and 41 on quietness. East 91 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 76 and housing at 58. The citywide frame puts transit at 86 and tree cover at 72. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 91 Street, at 94. East 91 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where East 91 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 85.
The housing file puts 15% of the 1,104 homes on East 91 Street in rent stabilization, 162 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 91 Street runs through Upper East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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