E 14 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does E 14 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 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 14 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (89) and tree cover (90). Parking (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 14 Street, with 632 reports, and parking ranks 18 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,863 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 249 reports, then heat and hot water at 177. Reports on East 14 Street span 88 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,771 homes on file, that is about 67 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on East 14 Street carries 174 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 14 Street, 179 violations of it. Doors follows at 120 violations, then paint and lead at 109. City housing records put 2,771 homes in 653 residential buildings on East 14 Street, 139 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.2 homes each.
NYPD records 32 people injured in crashes on East 14 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 85, with housing at 38. That 38 on housing puts East 14 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 77 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 46. The citywide frame puts transit at 78 and food nearby at 78. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 14 Street, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where East 14 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 89.
22% of the 2,771 homes recorded on East 14 Street are rent-stabilized, 613 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 14 Street runs through Midwood, Gravesend & Homecrest and Sheepshead Bay, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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