E 79 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 79 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 79 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and tree cover (75). Infrastructure (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 79 Street name residential noise than any other category, 60 of them. Across every category, 129 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 47% of them name residential noise. Damaged tree is the next most-filed at 13 reports, then blocked driveway at 12. In all, 42 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 79 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 79 Street carries roughly 31 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on East 79 Street. PLUTO counts 212 residential buildings and 420 homes on East 79 Street, with 17 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on East 79 Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 81, with traffic safety at 29. That 29 on traffic safety puts East 79 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 62 and quietness at 50. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and transit at 29. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 79 Street, at 75. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 79 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where East 79 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 90.
Of the 420 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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