E 39 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does E 39 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 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 39 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (89) and tree cover (80). Parking (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 39 Street, with 83 reports, and parking ranks 30 among numbered streets. Across every category, 410 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 69 reports, and residential noise with 33. Reports on East 39 Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 39 Street carries roughly 53 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 39 Street carries 20 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 39 Street, 37 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 26 more, and plumbing for 17. City housing records put 767 homes in 480 residential buildings on East 39 Street, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on East 39 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 58 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 33. That 33 on infrastructure puts East 39 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 56 and housing at 50 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 47 and food nearby 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 39 Street ranks 80 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where East 39 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 60.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 767 homes on file, 21 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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