E 43 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does E 43 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 43 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (75) and tree cover (75). Infrastructure (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on East 43 Street, with 68 reports. Across every category, 459 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 55 reports, then residential noise at 41. The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 890 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on East 43 Street carries 30 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 43 Street is pests, at 38 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (26 violations) and paint and lead (13). 493 residential buildings on East 43 Street hold the 890 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on East 43 Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 65 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 41. That 41 on quietness puts East 43 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 51 and housing at 48. Against every street in the city, East 43 Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 29 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 43 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where East 43 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 75.
The housing file puts 5% of the 890 homes on East 43 Street in rent stabilization, 43 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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