E 22 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 22 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 22 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and tree cover (97). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 22 Street, with 336 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 22 Street holds 2,233 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (241 reports) and blocked driveway (224). The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. About 115 reports per 100 homes sit on East 22 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 365 Class C violations on East 22 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 22 Street is pests, at 150 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 132 more, and doors for 74. PLUTO counts 840 residential buildings and 1,942 homes on East 22 Street, with 92 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 24 people injured in crashes on East 22 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 22 Street ranks 46 on infrastructure and 12 on housing. A 12 on housing places East 22 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 28 and parking at 23. Transit ranks 62 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 22 Street ranks 97 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 22 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 22 Street is traffic safety, at 86.
The housing file puts 29% of the 1,942 homes on East 22 Street in rent stabilization, 566 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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