E 13 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does E 13 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 13 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (87) and tree cover (91). Parking (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 13 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 412 of them, and parking ranks 32 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water accounts for 23% of the 1,791 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 336 reports, then illegal parking at 311. In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 13 Street. The 311 file works out to about 57 reports for every 100 homes on East 13 Street.
The HPD file on East 13 Street carries 180 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 13 Street, 127 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 103 violations, then doors at 95. PLUTO counts 588 residential buildings and 3,120 homes on East 13 Street, with 83 walk-ups and 27 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 13 Street ranks 81 on infrastructure and 36 on housing. East 13 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts quietness at 67 and cleanliness at 50 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 80 and transit 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 13 Street ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where East 13 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 87.
38% of the 3,120 homes recorded on East 13 Street are rent-stabilized, 1,196 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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E 13 Street runs through Gravesend & Homecrest, Midwood and Sheepshead Bay, 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).