E 53 Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does E 53 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against numbered streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts E 53 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (60) and tree cover (94). Quietness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 53 Street name residential noise than any other category, 587 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 53 Street holds 1,916 reports, and residential noise is 31% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 177 reports, and heat and hot water with 151. Reports on East 53 Street span 75 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 53 Street carries roughly 96 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 184 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 205 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 162 violations, then structure at 70. 817 residential buildings on East 53 Street hold the 1,987 homes on file, 80 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 53 Street holds about 2.4 homes.
Reported crashes on East 53 Street have injured 103 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 53 Street ranks 36 on parking and 22 on housing. A 22 on housing places East 53 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 27 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 26. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 53 and transit at 22. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 53 Street is infrastructure, at 41.
About 7% of the 1,987 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 139 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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