Pitt Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Pitt Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Pitt Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and food nearby (94). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Pitt Street, with 473 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 822 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 58% of them name residential noise. Drug activity is the next most-filed at 69 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 52. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Pitt Street carries roughly 51 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 20 Class C violations on Pitt Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Pitt Street, 23 violations of it. Structure follows at 21 violations, then doors at 17. PLUTO counts 15 residential buildings and 1,599 homes on Pitt Street, with 6 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 107 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Pitt Street have injured 15 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 92, with traffic safety at 62. That 62 on traffic safety puts Pitt Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 72 and cleanliness at 67. The citywide frame puts transit at 70 and tree cover at 48. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Pitt Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Pitt Street is parking, at 93.
The housing file puts 23% of the 1,599 homes on Pitt Street in rent stabilization, 368 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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Pitt Street runs through Lower East Side, 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).