86 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does 86 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 86 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (94). Cleanliness (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 86 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 526 of them, and cleanliness ranks 23 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,715 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name illegal parking. Graffiti is the next most-filed at 144 reports, then blocked driveway at 141. In all, 104 distinct 311 categories are represented on 86 Street. About 108 reports per 100 homes sit on 86 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 83 Class C violations on 86 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 47 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (36 violations) and doors (34). PLUTO counts 566 residential buildings and 1,588 homes on 86 Street, with 61 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 86 Street holds about 2.8 homes.
Since 2021, 379 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 82 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 25. That 25 on traffic safety puts 86 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 69 on the same scale, with parking at 68. Food nearby ranks 85 and transit 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
About 19% of the 1,588 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 286 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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86 Street runs through Bay Ridge, Gravesend and Dyker Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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