E 54 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does E 54 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 36, 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 54 Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (62) and tree cover (93). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 54 Street name residential noise than any other category, 198 of them, and cleanliness ranks 16 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 54 Street holds 1,404 reports, and residential noise is 14% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 190 reports, then illegal parking at 140. In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 54 Street. About 83 reports per 100 homes sit on East 54 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 213 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 54 Street is pests, at 174 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (67 violations) and bed bugs (64). City housing records put 1,682 homes in 770 residential buildings on East 54 Street, 101 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 54 Street holds about 2.2 homes.
NYPD records 56 people injured in crashes on East 54 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 41, with housing at 20. East 54 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 30 and infrastructure at 30. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and transit at 20. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 54 Street, at 93. East 54 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 54 Street is parking, at 45.
The housing file puts 4% of the 1,682 homes on East 54 Street in rent stabilization, 68 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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