E 98 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 98 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 98 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (82) and transit (90). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 98 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 52 of them, and cleanliness ranks 4 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 43% of the 121 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 48 reports, then residential noise at 22. Reports on East 98 Street span 42 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 52 reports for every 100 homes on East 98 Street.
East 98 Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 9 residential buildings on East 98 Street holding 231 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 73 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 18. An 18 on traffic safety places East 98 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Parking ranks 48 on the same scale, with quietness at 23. Against every street in the city, East 98 Street ranks 88 on food nearby and 61 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 98 Street, at 90. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 98 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 98 Street is housing, at 82.
The housing file puts 19% of the 231 homes on East 98 Street in rent stabilization, 44 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 98 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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