E Houston Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E Houston Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Houston Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (77) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East Houston Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East Houston Street have injured 287 people, and traffic safety ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East Houston Street, with 463 reports. The whole 311 file on East Houston Street holds 964 reports, and illegal parking is 48% of it. For hire vehicle complaint follows with 127 reports, and commercial noise with 71. In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on East Houston Street. About 57 reports per 100 homes sit on East Houston Street, counting every category.
East Houston Street carries 16 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East Houston Street is pests, at 14 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 10 more. PLUTO counts 45 residential buildings and 1,701 homes on East Houston Street, with 20 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. The average building on East Houston Street holds about 38 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 76, with cleanliness at 20. A 20 on cleanliness places East Houston Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 38 on the same scale, with parking at 26. Against every street in the city, East Houston Street ranks 94 on transit and 69 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East Houston Street, at 98. East Houston Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East Houston Street is infrastructure, at 77.
About 30% of the 1,701 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 506 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
- Avenue A, Manhattan
- Orchard Street, Manhattan
- Attorney Street, Manhattan
- Rivington Street, Manhattan
- Avenue B, Manhattan
- Norfolk Street, Manhattan
E Houston Street runs through Lower East Side, East Village and Greenwich Village, 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).