74 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 74 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 74 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (85) and tree cover (94). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 74 Street, with 856 reports, and parking ranks 14 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 74 Street holds 1,475 reports, and illegal parking is 58% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 166 reports, and heat and hot water with 87. In all, 82 distinct 311 categories are represented on 74 Street. About 71 reports per 100 homes sit on 74 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 35 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 72 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (70 violations) and paint and lead (43). PLUTO counts 759 residential buildings and 2,083 homes on 74 Street, with 196 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 74 Street holds about 2.7 homes.
Since 2021, 56 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 73 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 29. A 29 on infrastructure places 74 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 58 and housing at 55. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and transit at 49. 74 Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 74 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 74 Street is quietness, at 85.
The housing file puts 17% of the 2,083 homes on 74 Street in rent stabilization, 357 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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