E 28 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does E 28 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 58, 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 28 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (81) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 28 Street, with 626 reports. The whole 311 file on East 28 Street holds 1,335 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (227 reports) and residential noise (133). Reports on East 28 Street span 67 distinct 311 categories. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on East 28 Street, counting every category.
East 28 Street carries 69 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. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 28 Street, 63 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 48 violations, then paint and lead at 24. PLUTO counts 1,130 residential buildings and 2,267 homes on East 28 Street, with 77 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 28 Street have injured 48 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 68 among numbered streets and parking ranks 24. A 24 on parking places East 28 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 55 and cleanliness at 37. Against every street in the city, East 28 Street ranks 59 on food nearby and 46 on transit. East 28 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 28 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
7% of the 2,267 homes recorded on East 28 Street are rent-stabilized, 161 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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E 28 Street runs through Madison, Midwood and Sheepshead Bay, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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