E 31 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does E 31 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 31 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 31 Street, with 373 reports, and cleanliness ranks 39 among numbered streets. Plumbing follows with 314 reports, and helicopter noise with 126. In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 31 Street. The 311 file works out to about 26 reports for every 100 homes on East 31 Street.
East 31 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. HPD's most-cited category on East 31 Street is bed bugs, at 21 violations. Pests accounts for 19 more. 50 residential buildings on East 31 Street hold the 1,311 homes on file, 19 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 31 Street have injured 30 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 81 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 57. A 57 on quietness places East 31 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 72 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 69. The citywide frame puts transit at 97 and tree cover at 57. East 31 Street ranks 99 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 31 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 31 Street is parking, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 6% of the 1,311 homes on file, 76 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 31 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).