E 73 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does E 73 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 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 73 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (85). Transit (3) 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 73 Street, with 93 reports. Across every category, 264 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (64 reports) and blocked driveway (50). The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 570 homes on file, that is about 46 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 6 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 73 Street, 33 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 19 more. The housing file lists 255 residential buildings on East 73 Street holding 570 homes, with 60 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 73 Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 73 Street ranks 82 on infrastructure and 33 on parking. A 33 on parking places East 73 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 74 on the same scale, with housing at 52. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 3, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 73 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where East 73 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
7% of the 570 homes recorded on East 73 Street are rent-stabilized, 44 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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