E 99 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does E 99 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 99 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and transit (89). Quietness (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 99 Street, with 143 reports. Across every category, 385 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 97 reports, and heat and hot water with 45. In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 99 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 99 Street carries roughly 38 reports per 100 of them.
East 99 Street carries 21 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 13 residential buildings on East 99 Street holding 1,026 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 79 homes each.
NYPD records 30 people injured in crashes on East 99 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 78 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 48. That 48 on traffic safety puts East 99 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 74 on the same scale, with housing at 60. Food nearby ranks 84 and tree cover 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 99 Street ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 99 Street is infrastructure, at 99.
36% of the 1,026 homes recorded on East 99 Street are rent-stabilized, 366 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 99 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).