E 27 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does E 27 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 27 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and food nearby (98). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 27 Street, with 1,383 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 2,890 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name residential noise. Encampment is the next most-filed at 45 reports, then noise at 26. Reports on East 27 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 182 reports for every 100 homes on East 27 Street.
East 27 Street carries 14 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. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 13 violations on file. 31 residential buildings on East 27 Street hold the 1,589 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 51 homes each.
Since 2021, 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 93, with traffic safety at 63. A 63 on traffic safety places East 27 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 86 and housing at 84 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 27 Street ranks 94 on transit and 57 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 27 Street is parking, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 1,589 homes on file, 244 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 27 Street runs through Murray Hill, Gramercy and Midtown South, 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).