E 36 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does E 36 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 36 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (90) and tree cover (86). Transit (13) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 36 Street, with 131 reports. Across every category, 390 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 39 reports, and blocked driveway with 33. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 36 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 36 Street carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 29 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 36 Street, 40 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 24 violations, then structure at 17. PLUTO counts 494 residential buildings and 646 homes on East 36 Street, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 36 Street ranks 51 on traffic safety and 21 on infrastructure. That 21 on infrastructure puts East 36 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 49 and housing at 32 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 36 Street ranks 35 on food nearby and 13 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where East 36 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 53.
About 8% of the 646 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 51 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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