85 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 85 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 85 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and tree cover (95). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 85 Street, with 728 reports, and parking ranks 7 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 85 Street holds 1,885 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 284 reports, then heat and hot water at 275. In all, 75 distinct 311 categories are represented on 85 Street. The 311 file works out to about 81 reports for every 100 homes on 85 Street.
Inspectors have written 90 Class C violations on 85 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 85 Street is pests, at 117 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 80 more, and paint and lead for 67. PLUTO counts 757 residential buildings and 2,333 homes on 85 Street, with 209 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 85 Street have injured 52 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 66 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 35. 85 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts traffic safety at 56 and housing at 43 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 83 and transit 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 85 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 85 Street is quietness, at 75.
About 23% of the 2,333 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 531 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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