E 34 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does E 34 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 34 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (67) and tree cover (96). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 34 Street, with 347 reports. The whole 311 file on East 34 Street holds 1,971 reports, and illegal parking is 18% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (203 reports) and heat and hot water (159). The file runs across 72 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,783 homes on file, that is about 111 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on East 34 Street carries 316 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 18 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 34 Street, 155 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (144 violations) and doors (83). PLUTO counts 872 residential buildings and 1,783 homes on East 34 Street, with 92 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
NYPD records 36 people injured in crashes on East 34 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 34 Street ranks 60 on cleanliness and 26 on parking. A 26 on parking places East 34 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 42 and quietness at 30 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 63 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 34 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 34 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where East 34 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 67.
The housing file puts 20% of the 1,783 homes on East 34 Street in rent stabilization, 354 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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