E 29 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does E 29 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 66, 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 29 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and food nearby (98). Quietness (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 29 Street name helicopter noise than any other category, 164 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 481 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name helicopter noise. After that the file runs to encampment (145 reports) and illegal parking (106). In all, 58 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 29 Street. About 33 reports per 100 homes sit on East 29 Street, counting every category.
East 29 Street carries 11 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 bed bugs, with 15 violations on file. Pests follows at 14 violations. 42 residential buildings on East 29 Street hold the 1,480 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 35 homes each.
Since 2021, 27 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 87 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 51. East 29 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 79 and traffic safety at 70. Against every street in the city, East 29 Street ranks 93 on transit and 62 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 29 Street, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 29 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
The housing file puts 20% of the 1,480 homes on East 29 Street in rent stabilization, 297 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 29 Street runs through Murray Hill 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).