E 96 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does E 96 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 96 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and transit (92). Traffic safety (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 96 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 96 Street have injured 142 people, and traffic safety ranks 13 among numbered streets. The 311 file on East 96 Street is led by illegal parking, with 41 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 11% of the 359 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (24 reports) and noise (20). Reports on East 96 Street span 74 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 96 Street carries roughly 19 reports per 100 of them.
East 96 Street carries 69 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 39 residential buildings and 1,849 homes on East 96 Street, with 18 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 47 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 93, with housing at 62. That 62 on housing puts East 96 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 79 and infrastructure at 70. Food nearby ranks 87 and tree cover 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 96 Street, at 92. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 96 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 96 Street is parking, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 23% of the 1,849 homes on file, 424 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 96 Street runs through East Harlem and 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).