E 38 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does E 38 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 38 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (78) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 38 Street, with 470 reports. Across every category, 1,024 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 179 reports, and residential noise with 136. Reports on East 38 Street span 64 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,415 homes on file, that is about 72 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 22 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 38 Street is pests, at 27 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (14 violations) and paint and lead (14). City housing records put 1,415 homes in 915 residential buildings on East 38 Street, 48 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 35 people injured in crashes on East 38 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 67, with parking at 13. That 13 on parking puts East 38 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 59 on the same scale, with housing at 58. Against every street in the city, East 38 Street ranks 42 on food nearby and 39 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 38 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 38 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
The housing file puts 6% of the 1,415 homes on East 38 Street in rent stabilization, 91 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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