E 70 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does E 70 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against numbered streets. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 70 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and tree cover (86). Transit (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 70 Street, with 62 reports. The whole 311 file on East 70 Street holds 190 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (32 reports) and residential noise (30). The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. About 39 reports per 100 homes sit on East 70 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 287 residential buildings and 493 homes on East 70 Street, with 41 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 86, with infrastructure at 22. A 22 on infrastructure places East 70 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 81 and parking at 42 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 70 Street ranks 18 on food nearby and 4 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 70 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where East 70 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 493 on East 70 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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