E 97 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does E 97 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 97 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and transit (90). Traffic safety (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 97 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 69 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 11 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 58 reports. Across every category, 235 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (23 reports) and noise (17). The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. About 29 reports per 100 homes sit on East 97 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 800 homes in 35 residential buildings on East 97 Street, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 23 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 83, with cleanliness at 26. A 26 on cleanliness places East 97 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 73 on the same scale, with parking at 56. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 78 and tree cover at 70. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 97 Street, at 90. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 97 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where East 97 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 85.
The housing file puts 19% of the 800 homes on East 97 Street in rent stabilization, 150 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 97 Street runs through East Harlem, 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).