E 45 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 45 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 45 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and tree cover (83). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 45 Street, with 80 reports. The whole 311 file on East 45 Street holds 419 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (62 reports) and heat and hot water (33). Reports on East 45 Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. About 47 reports per 100 homes sit on East 45 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 45 Street carries 40 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 45 Street is pests, at 56 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 45 more, and bed bugs for 26. PLUTO counts 578 residential buildings and 887 homes on East 45 Street, with 33 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 22 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 45 Street ranks 59 on parking and 44 on housing. A 44 on housing places East 45 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 58 and cleanliness at 50 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 45 Street ranks 48 on food nearby and 21 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. East 45 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 45 Street is quietness, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 887 homes on file, 25 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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