E 27 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does E 27 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.

Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.

That puts E 27 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (79) and tree cover (97). Parking (14) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 27 Street, with 600 reports, and parking ranks 14 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,051 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 57% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 126 reports, then blocked driveway at 91. Reports on East 27 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 73 reports for every 100 homes on East 27 Street.

East 27 Street carries 47 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 27 Street is pests, at 73 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 64 more, and doors for 26. 789 residential buildings on East 27 Street hold the 1,441 homes on file, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records 42 people injured in crashes on East 27 Street since 2021.

Among numbered streets, East 27 Street ranks 75 on cleanliness and 26 on infrastructure. East 27 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts traffic safety at 51 and housing at 42 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 27 Street ranks 97 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 27 Street is quietness, at 79.

The housing file puts 17% of the 1,441 homes on East 27 Street in rent stabilization, 246 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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