E 23 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does E 23 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 23 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (78) and tree cover (97). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 23 Street, with 658 reports, and parking ranks 11 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 23 Street holds 1,456 reports, and illegal parking is 45% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 231 reports, and residential noise with 158. The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. About 91 reports per 100 homes sit on East 23 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 104 Class C violations on East 23 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 23 Street is pests, at 97 violations. Bed bugs follows at 51 violations, then paint and lead at 51. 877 residential buildings on East 23 Street hold the 1,597 homes on file, 85 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 34 people injured in crashes on East 23 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 48, with cleanliness at 31. A 31 on cleanliness places East 23 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 36 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 32. Transit ranks 65 and food nearby 59, 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 23 Street, at 97. 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 68.
About 10% of the 1,597 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 163 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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