E 53 Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does E 53 Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 53 Place in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and food nearby (78). Housing (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 21 distinct 311 categories in all.
East 53 Place carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 51 residential buildings and 105 homes on East 53 Place, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, East 53 Place ranks 86 on cleanliness and 45 on quietness. That 45 on quietness puts East 53 Place in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 84 and infrastructure at 52. The citywide frame puts transit at 39 and tree cover at 25. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is where East 53 Place ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 91.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 105 on East 53 Place.
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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