E 7 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does E 7 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 7 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (80) and tree cover (99). Parking (45) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 7 Street, with 321 reports, and parking ranks 45 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,174 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (187 reports) and blocked driveway (175). The file runs across 72 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 7 Street carries roughly 40 reports per 100 of them.
East 7 Street carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 7 Street is pests, at 93 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (52 violations) and paint and lead (33). The housing file lists 913 residential buildings on East 7 Street holding 2,966 homes, with 92 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
NYPD records 45 people injured in crashes on East 7 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 7 Street ranks 80 on traffic safety and 57 on housing. A 57 on housing places East 7 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 72 and infrastructure at 60 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 7 Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
The housing file puts 15% of the 2,966 homes on East 7 Street in rent stabilization, 448 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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E 7 Street runs through Mapleton, Gravesend & Homecrest and Kensington, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).