E 16 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does E 16 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 16 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (72) and tree cover (93). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 16 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 512 of them, and parking ranks 23 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,746 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 356 reports, then blocked driveway at 234. The file runs across 93 distinct 311 categories in all. About 90 reports per 100 homes sit on East 16 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 16 Street carries 85 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 16 Street, 92 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 64 more, and bed bugs for 35. The housing file lists 664 residential buildings on East 16 Street holding 1,935 homes, with 54 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
NYPD records 49 people injured in crashes on East 16 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 40, with cleanliness at 25. A 25 on cleanliness places East 16 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 39 and infrastructure at 36. The citywide frame puts transit at 86 and food nearby at 71. East 16 Street ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 16 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where East 16 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 1,935 homes on file, 615 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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