E 4 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does E 4 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 4 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (73) and tree cover (98). Parking (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 4 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 503 of them, and parking ranks 20 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,309 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (171 reports) and residential noise (82). In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 4 Street. Set against the 1,914 homes on file, that is about 68 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 79 Class C violations on East 4 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 90 violations on file. Pests accounts for 76 more, and doors for 22. 836 residential buildings on East 4 Street hold the 1,914 homes on file, 147 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 4 Street have injured 35 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 65, with cleanliness at 33. That 33 on cleanliness puts East 4 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 39 and housing at 39. Transit ranks 71 and food nearby 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 4 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where East 4 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 73.
About 20% of the 1,914 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 384 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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