E 3 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does E 3 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 3 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (82) and tree cover (98). Quietness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 3 Street, with 370 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,870 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (242 reports) and blocked driveway (162). In all, 74 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 3 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 3 Street carries roughly 87 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 3 Street carries 129 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 3 Street, 125 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 106 more, and bed bugs for 61. City housing records put 2,150 homes in 853 residential buildings on East 3 Street, 103 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 39, with housing at 32. A 32 on housing places East 3 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 35 and parking at 35. Transit ranks 73 and food nearby 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 3 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
About 22% of the 2,150 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 471 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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