E 48 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 48 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 48 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (71) and tree cover (93). Transit (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 48 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 111 of them. The whole 311 file on East 48 Street holds 557 reports, and blocked driveway is 20% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (96 reports) and abandoned vehicle (74). The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. About 48 reports per 100 homes sit on East 48 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 56 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 55 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 27 more, and heat and hot water for 15. The housing file lists 708 residential buildings on East 48 Street holding 1,150 homes, with 44 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 36 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 66, with infrastructure at 33. That 33 on infrastructure puts East 48 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 46 and housing at 41. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 68 and transit at 24. East 48 Street ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where East 48 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 71.
About 5% of the 1,150 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 62 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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