Pearl Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Pearl Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Pearl Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (88) and transit (96). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Pearl Street, with 71 reports. The whole 311 file on Pearl Street holds 403 reports, and illegal parking is 18% of it. Vendor enforcement is the next most-filed at 51 reports, then residential noise at 49. Reports on Pearl Street span 74 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Pearl Street carries roughly 153 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 8 residential buildings on Pearl Street holding 264 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 33 homes to a building.
NYPD records 44 people injured in crashes on Pearl Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 54 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 8. Pearl Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Parking ranks 34 on the same scale, with quietness at 22. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Pearl Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
72% of the 264 homes recorded on Pearl Street are rent-stabilized, 189 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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Pearl Street runs through Financial District, Chinatown and Tribeca, 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).