E 103 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does E 103 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.

Calm 69, ranked against numbered streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts E 103 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (78). Food nearby (27) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 103 Street, with 73 reports. Across every category, 277 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (53 reports) and heat and hot water (47). The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 838 homes on file, that is about 33 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited 25 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 103 Street is pests, at 41 violations. Heat and hot water accounts for 26 more, and doors for 19. The housing file lists 311 residential buildings on East 103 Street holding 838 homes, with 26 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.

NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on East 103 Street since 2021.

Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 72, with housing at 51. East 103 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 61 and parking at 53. Against every street in the city, East 103 Street ranks 44 on transit and 27 on food nearby. East 103 Street ranks 78 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 103 Street is scored inside.

Quietness is where East 103 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 97.

Of the 838 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Brooklyn

E 103 Street runs through Canarsie, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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