72 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 72 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 72 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (77) and tree cover (96). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 72 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 901 of them, and parking ranks 9 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 72 Street holds 2,041 reports, and illegal parking is 44% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 197 reports, and residential noise with 98. The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. About 78 reports per 100 homes sit on 72 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 73 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 114 violations on file. Pests accounts for 113 more, and paint and lead for 63. 842 residential buildings on 72 Street hold the 2,605 homes on file, 189 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.1 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 46 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 72 Street ranks 70 on traffic safety and 37 on cleanliness. 72 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 65 and housing at 42 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 81 and transit 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 72 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 72 Street is quietness, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 2,605 homes on file, 239 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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