E 31 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does E 31 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 31 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (82) and tree cover (95). Parking (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on East 31 Street, with 429 reports, and parking ranks 28 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,234 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 197 reports, and residential noise with 164. In all, 71 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 31 Street. The 311 file works out to about 65 reports for every 100 homes on East 31 Street.
East 31 Street carries 107 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 31 Street is pests, at 79 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (52 violations) and plumbing (30). 779 residential buildings on East 31 Street hold the 1,907 homes on file, 121 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 31 Street have injured 30 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 65 among numbered streets and housing ranks 36. A 36 on housing places East 31 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 57 on the same scale, with quietness at 53. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 69 and transit at 51. East 31 Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 31 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 31 Street is traffic safety, at 80.
Rent stabilization covers about 23% of the 1,907 homes on file, 445 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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