E 17 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does E 17 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 17 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (85) and tree cover (99). Housing (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 17 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 417 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 15% of the 2,867 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 406 reports, and blocked driveway with 284. In all, 89 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 17 Street. About 91 reports per 100 homes sit on East 17 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 344 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 253 violations on file. Pests follows at 226 violations, then doors at 158. PLUTO counts 642 residential buildings and 3,153 homes on East 17 Street, with 98 walk-ups and 29 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.9 homes each.
NYPD records 42 people injured in crashes on East 17 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 65 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 24. A 24 on cleanliness places East 17 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 32 on the same scale, with parking at 27. Transit ranks 84 and food nearby 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 17 Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 40% of the 3,153 homes on file, 1,256 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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