E 2 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does E 2 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 2 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (89) and tree cover (98). Housing (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on East 2 Street, with 251 reports. Across every category, 1,736 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 224 reports, and heat and hot water with 131. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 2 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 2 Street carries roughly 65 reports per 100 of them.
East 2 Street carries 215 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 2 Street, 212 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 138 more, and paint and lead for 116. 982 residential buildings on East 2 Street hold the 2,673 homes on file, 232 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 2 Street have injured 28 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 65 among numbered streets and parking ranks 34. That 34 on parking puts East 2 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 61 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 34. Against every street in the city, East 2 Street ranks 76 on transit and 67 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 2 Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where East 2 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 2,673 homes on file, 355 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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