E 51 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does E 51 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts E 51 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (64) and tree cover (94). Cleanliness (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 51 Street, with 272 reports, and cleanliness ranks 23 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,272 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (226 reports) and residential noise (105). Reports on East 51 Street span 79 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 59 reports for every 100 homes on East 51 Street.
East 51 Street carries 160 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 51 Street, 178 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 89 violations, then paint and lead at 88. The housing file lists 896 residential buildings on East 51 Street holding 2,138 homes, with 130 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 51 Street have injured 71 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 61, with housing at 29. That 29 on housing puts East 51 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 44 and parking at 44. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 63 and transit at 23. East 51 Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 51 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 2,138 homes on file, 171 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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