E 49 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 49 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 49 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (86) and tree cover (92). Parking (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 49 Street, with 174 reports, and parking ranks 26 among numbered streets. Across every category, 743 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 122 reports, and residential noise with 49. The file runs across 58 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,171 homes on file, that is about 63 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 41 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 49 Street is pests, at 78 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 31 more, and bed bugs for 24. The housing file lists 697 residential buildings on East 49 Street holding 1,171 homes, with 45 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 45 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 49 Street ranks 49 on infrastructure and 36 on traffic safety. That 36 on traffic safety puts East 49 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 48 and housing at 41 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 49 Street, at 92. East 49 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 49 Street is cleanliness, at 86.
About 3% of the 1,171 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 34 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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