53 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 53 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 53 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (89) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 53 Street, with 220 reports. Across every category, 1,166 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 104 reports, then street condition at 100. The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 53 Street carries roughly 58 reports per 100 of them.
53 Street carries 122 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 53 Street is pests, at 157 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (133 violations) and paint and lead (58). City housing records put 2,010 homes in 733 residential buildings on 53 Street, 191 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 53 Street holds about 2.7 homes.
Reported crashes on 53 Street have injured 66 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 53 Street ranks 53 on traffic safety and 34 on housing. A 34 on housing places 53 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 51 and cleanliness at 50 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 53 Street ranks 75 on food nearby and 58 on transit. 53 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 53 Street is quietness, at 89.
The housing file puts 8% of the 2,010 homes on 53 Street in rent stabilization, 149 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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