E 18 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does E 18 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 55, 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 18 Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and tree cover (99). Housing (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 18 Street name residential noise than any other category, 771 of them. Residential noise accounts for 19% of the 3,972 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 715 reports, then illegal parking at 626. In all, 89 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 18 Street. The 311 file works out to about 98 reports for every 100 homes on East 18 Street.
HPD has cited 595 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 18 Street is paint and lead, at 483 violations. Pests accounts for 403 more, and doors for 249. City housing records put 4,045 homes in 700 residential buildings on East 18 Street, 83 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 44 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 18 Street holds about 5.8 homes.
NYPD records 41 people injured in crashes on East 18 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 72 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 22. A 22 on quietness places East 18 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 51 and parking at 35. Transit ranks 81 and food nearby 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 18 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where East 18 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 53% of the 4,045 homes on file, 2,124 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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