E 59 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 59 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 59 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and tree cover (91). Infrastructure (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 59 Street, with 89 reports. Across every category, 474 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 70 reports, then residential noise at 63. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 59 Street. Set against the 951 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 44 Class C violations on East 59 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 57 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (21 violations) and doors (15). PLUTO counts 539 residential buildings and 951 homes on East 59 Street, with 70 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 30 people injured in crashes on East 59 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 76, with housing at 38. A 38 on housing places East 59 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 46 and traffic safety at 43. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. East 59 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is where East 59 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 91.
The housing file puts 1% of the 951 homes on East 59 Street in rent stabilization, 10 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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