E 57 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does E 57 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 57 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (84) and tree cover (93). Transit (17) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 57 Street, with 109 reports. Across every category, 432 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 89 reports, and residential noise with 60. In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 57 Street. The 311 file works out to about 41 reports for every 100 homes on East 57 Street.
East 57 Street carries 6 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. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 57 Street, 28 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 24 violations. 619 residential buildings on East 57 Street hold the 1,065 homes on file, 71 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on East 57 Street have injured 33 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 57 Street ranks 78 on housing and 24 on infrastructure. A 24 on infrastructure places East 57 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 69 and parking at 39. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 55 and transit at 17. East 57 Street ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where East 57 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 84.
Of the 1,065 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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