73 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 73 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 73 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (90) and tree cover (95). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 73 Street, with 1,192 reports, and parking ranks 7 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 73 Street holds 1,474 reports, and illegal parking is 81% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 192 reports, then residential noise at 56. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 73 Street carries roughly 78 reports per 100 of them.
73 Street carries 32 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 73 Street is bed bugs, at 101 violations. Pests accounts for 89 more, and doors for 27. PLUTO counts 789 residential buildings and 1,894 homes on 73 Street, with 179 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Reported crashes on 73 Street have injured 50 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 76 among numbered streets and housing ranks 58. That 58 on housing puts 73 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 62 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 60. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and transit at 51. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 73 Street, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 73 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 73 Street is quietness, at 90.
11% of the 1,894 homes recorded on 73 Street are rent-stabilized, 205 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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