E 69 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 69 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts E 69 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (76) and tree cover (76). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on East 69 Street, with 37 reports. Across every category, 167 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (28 reports) and residential noise (27). Reports on East 69 Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 43 reports for every 100 homes on East 69 Street.

HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 69 Street, 14 violations of it. The housing file lists 195 residential buildings on East 69 Street holding 387 homes, with 61 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

NYPD records 9 people injured in crashes on East 69 Street since 2021.

Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 67, with infrastructure at 25. That 25 on infrastructure puts East 69 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 64 and parking at 43 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 69 Street ranks 76 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 69 Street is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 69 Street is housing, at 76.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 387 on East 69 Street.

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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