62 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 62 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 62 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and tree cover (90). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 62 Street, with 397 reports, and cleanliness ranks 19 among numbered streets. Across every category, 826 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (103 reports) and residential noise (67). In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on 62 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 62 Street carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.
62 Street carries 12 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 62 Street is bed bugs, at 93 violations. Pests follows at 69 violations, then paint and lead at 13. City housing records put 1,379 homes in 582 residential buildings on 62 Street, 163 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
NYPD records 47 people injured in crashes on 62 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 62 Street ranks 59 on housing and 20 on parking. That 20 on parking puts 62 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 44 and infrastructure at 39. Food nearby ranks 80 and transit 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 62 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 62 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 1,379 homes on file, 15 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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