81 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 81 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 81 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and tree cover (97). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 81 Street, with 720 reports, and parking ranks 14 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,216 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 59% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 160 reports, and residential noise with 103. Reports on 81 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 68 reports for every 100 homes on 81 Street.
Inspectors have written 42 Class C violations on 81 Street, 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 69 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (58 violations) and doors (19). PLUTO counts 782 residential buildings and 1,788 homes on 81 Street, with 133 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 81 Street holds about 2.3 homes.
Reported crashes on 81 Street have injured 35 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 71 among numbered streets and housing ranks 54. That 54 on housing puts 81 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 70 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 54. Food nearby ranks 71 and transit 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 81 Street, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 81 Street is cleanliness, at 87.
The housing file puts 14% of the 1,788 homes on 81 Street in rent stabilization, 245 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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81 Street runs through Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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