E 42 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does E 42 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 42 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (77) and tree cover (70). Parking (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 42 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 118 of them, and parking ranks 28 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 31% of the 383 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 62 reports, and residential noise with 54. In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 42 Street. About 58 reports per 100 homes sit on East 42 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 7 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 29 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 14 violations. The housing file lists 422 residential buildings on East 42 Street holding 660 homes, with 31 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on East 42 Street have injured 16 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 59 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 47. A 47 on quietness places East 42 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 56 and housing at 48. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 29. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 70. East 42 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
None of the 660 homes on file 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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