E 26 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does E 26 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 26 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (88) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 26 Street, with 478 reports. The whole 311 file on East 26 Street holds 1,249 reports, and illegal parking is 38% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 208 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 114. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,295 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 131 Class C violations on East 26 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 26 Street, 124 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (97 violations) and doors (64). The housing file lists 982 residential buildings on East 26 Street holding 2,295 homes, with 77 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 27 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 86 among numbered streets and housing ranks 37. That 37 on housing puts East 26 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 75 and parking at 37. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 26 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where East 26 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 2,295 homes on file, 339 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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