E 5 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does E 5 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 5 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (80) and tree cover (98). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 5 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 437 of them, and parking ranks 6 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 23% of the 1,897 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 192 reports, then residential noise at 146. The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,757 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 115 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 5 Street, 122 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (93 violations) and bed bugs (56). The housing file lists 754 residential buildings on East 5 Street holding 1,757 homes, with 105 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 5 Street have injured 27 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 59 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 20. That 20 on cleanliness puts East 5 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 48 and housing at 27 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 66 and food nearby 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
20% of the 1,757 homes recorded on East 5 Street are rent-stabilized, 360 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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