E Broadway, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does E Broadway in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E Broadway in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (76) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment leads the 311 file on East Broadway, with 437 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 801 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name encampment. Graffiti follows with 216 reports, and residential noise with 105. The file runs across 79 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 910 homes on file, that is about 88 reports per 100 homes.
East Broadway carries 49 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East Broadway, 25 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 22 more, and paint and lead for 16. City housing records put 910 homes in 84 residential buildings on East Broadway, 43 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 43 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 68, with traffic safety at 28. A 28 on traffic safety places East Broadway in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 46 and quietness at 40 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 94 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East Broadway, at 96. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band East Broadway is scored inside.
Parking is where East Broadway ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 76.
The housing file puts 39% of the 910 homes on East Broadway in rent stabilization, 377 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
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E Broadway runs through Chinatown and Lower 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).