E 15 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does E 15 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 15 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and tree cover (90). Parking (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 15 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 242 of them, and parking ranks 31 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,097 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (222 reports) and residential noise (92). Reports on East 15 Street span 88 distinct 311 categories. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on East 15 Street, counting every category.
East 15 Street carries 100 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 15 Street, 106 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (62 violations) and doors (51). PLUTO counts 758 residential buildings and 1,851 homes on East 15 Street, with 116 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 15 Street ranks 82 on quietness and 35 on cleanliness. That 35 on cleanliness puts East 15 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 48 and housing at 37 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 82 and food nearby 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 15 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where East 15 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 91.
About 20% of the 1,851 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 369 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 15 Street runs through Midwood, Sheepshead Bay and Madison, 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).