E 68 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does E 68 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against numbered streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 68 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and tree cover (60). Parking (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 68 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 288 of them, and parking ranks 7 among numbered streets. School maintenance is the next most-filed at 18 reports, then blocked driveway at 16. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 68 Street. The 311 file works out to about 81 reports for every 100 homes on East 68 Street.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on East 68 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 125 residential buildings and 279 homes on East 68 Street, with 44 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 96 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 48. A 48 on infrastructure places East 68 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 88 on the same scale, with housing at 73. Against every street in the city, East 68 Street ranks 48 on food nearby and 17 on transit. East 68 Street ranks 60 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
Of the 279 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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