E 78 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 78 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 78 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (78) and tree cover (67). Infrastructure (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 78 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 41 of them. Across every category, 206 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name blocked driveway. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 36 reports, then illegal parking at 23. The file runs across 32 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 352 homes on file, that is about 59 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on East 78 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 78 Street, 13 violations of it. Pests accounts for 12 more. PLUTO counts 192 residential buildings and 352 homes on East 78 Street, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on East 78 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 78 Street ranks 61 on traffic safety and 27 on quietness. East 78 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Housing ranks 58 on the same scale, with parking at 41. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 63 and transit at 29. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 67. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 78 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 78 Street is cleanliness, at 78.
Of the 352 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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