87 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 87 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 87 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (71) and food nearby (82). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 87 Street, with 174 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among numbered streets. Across every category, 395 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 32 reports, and residential noise with 16. The file runs across 51 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 320 homes on file, that is about 123 reports per 100 homes.
87 Street carries 30 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 320 homes in 155 residential buildings on 87 Street, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 34, with parking at 4. 87 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 33 and infrastructure at 33. Against every street in the city, 87 Street ranks 79 on tree cover and 54 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 87 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 43.
29% of the 320 homes recorded on 87 Street are rent-stabilized, 93 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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