81 Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 81 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 68, 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 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) 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. HPD has cited 39 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 35 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 89 among numbered streets. Only about 14% of the 1,788 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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