E 40 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 40 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 40 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (73) and tree cover (84). Infrastructure (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 40 Street, with 100 reports. Across every category, 393 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 65 reports, then heat and hot water at 25. Reports on East 40 Street span 59 distinct 311 categories. About 48 reports per 100 homes sit on East 40 Street, counting every category.
East 40 Street carries 15 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 40 Street, 40 violations of it. Heat and hot water accounts for 17 more, and paint and lead for 13. The housing file lists 544 residential buildings on East 40 Street holding 818 homes, with 19 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 24 people injured in crashes on East 40 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 40 Street ranks 70 on quietness and 42 on parking. East 40 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts housing at 53 and traffic safety at 51 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 39 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 40 Street ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 40 Street is cleanliness, at 73.
Of the 818 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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