E 72 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does E 72 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against numbered streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 72 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (84). Transit (6) 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 72 Street, with 42 reports. Across every category, 281 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name illegal parking. Street condition is the next most-filed at 30 reports, then blocked driveway at 25. The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 501 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 7 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 72 Street, 13 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 11 violations. 277 residential buildings on East 72 Street hold the 501 homes on file, 31 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 91 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 8. East 72 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 88 and housing at 41 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 6, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 72 Street ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 72 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where East 72 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 501 on East 72 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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