E 52 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does E 52 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts E 52 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (58) and tree cover (96). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 52 Street, with 257 reports, and parking ranks 23 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,356 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (156 reports) and residential noise (156). The file runs across 72 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 52 Street carries roughly 77 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 104 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 52 Street is pests, at 154 violations. Bed bugs follows at 73 violations, then paint and lead at 54. City housing records put 1,761 homes in 893 residential buildings on East 52 Street, 119 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 44 people injured in crashes on East 52 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 56, with housing at 28. East 52 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. Quietness ranks 47 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 29. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 65 and transit at 25. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. East 52 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 52 Street is traffic safety, at 58.
The housing file puts 5% of the 1,761 homes on East 52 Street in rent stabilization, 89 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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