78 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 78 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 78 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (79) and tree cover (95). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 78 Street, with 603 reports, and parking ranks 16 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 78 Street holds 1,463 reports, and illegal parking is 41% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (241 reports) and residential noise (75). In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on 78 Street. The 311 file works out to about 70 reports for every 100 homes on 78 Street.
Inspectors have written 54 Class C violations on 78 Street, 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 pests, with 90 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (90 violations) and paint and lead (32). 915 residential buildings on 78 Street hold the 2,100 homes on file, 172 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 40 people injured in crashes on 78 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 77 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 31. That 31 on infrastructure puts 78 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 72 on the same scale, with housing at 50. Against every street in the city, 78 Street ranks 69 on food nearby and 51 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 78 Street, at 95. 78 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 78 Street is cleanliness, at 79.
The housing file puts 7% of the 2,100 homes on 78 Street in rent stabilization, 142 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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