E 55 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does E 55 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 55 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (80) and tree cover (94). Transit (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 55 Street, with 168 reports. The whole 311 file on East 55 Street holds 1,000 reports, and illegal parking is 17% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 102 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 95. In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 55 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 55 Street carries roughly 73 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 55 Street carries 111 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 55 Street is pests, at 102 violations. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (69 violations) and bed bugs (59). PLUTO counts 761 residential buildings and 1,362 homes on East 55 Street, with 94 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on East 55 Street have injured 45 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 69 among numbered streets and parking ranks 20. A 20 on parking places East 55 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 43 and infrastructure at 28. Against every street in the city, East 55 Street ranks 48 on food nearby and 19 on transit. East 55 Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
1% of the 1,362 homes recorded on East 55 Street are rent-stabilized, 19 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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