88 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 88 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 88 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (83) and food nearby (83). Infrastructure (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 88 Street, with 281 reports. Across every category, 329 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 85% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 56 reports, and residential noise with 43. Reports on 88 Street span 55 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 62 reports for every 100 homes on 88 Street.
The HPD file on 88 Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 88 Street is pests, at 23 violations. Behind it the file holds plumbing (16 violations) and paint and lead (14). The housing file lists 203 residential buildings on 88 Street holding 530 homes, with 26 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on 88 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 88 Street ranks 68 on traffic safety and 24 on parking. That 24 on parking puts 88 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 57 and cleanliness at 51. Tree cover ranks 73 and transit 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 88 Street ranks 83 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 88 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 530 homes on file, 137 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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