The New York State driving test awards no extra credit for overcoming the curbside taunts of East Harlem teenagers.

The official driver’s manual offers little advice on the midblock pedestrian with what appears to be a handgun in his back pocket.

And no road signs carry the admonishment delivered from the front seat on East 106th Street on a recent afternoon.

“Wait for the charro to go through,” Leoni Pimentel, the owner of Akademia Driving School, on Lexington Avenue, told his student. A man in full cowboy regalia stared them down from the crosswalk.