E 8 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does E 8 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 8 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (87) and tree cover (98). Parking (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 8 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 276 of them, and parking ranks 22 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 8 Street holds 1,394 reports, and illegal parking is 20% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 159 reports, and heat and hot water with 77. Reports on East 8 Street span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 63 reports for every 100 homes on East 8 Street.
HPD has cited 78 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 8 Street, 92 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 68 more, and paint and lead for 51. City housing records put 2,207 homes in 820 residential buildings on East 8 Street, 108 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 25 people injured in crashes on East 8 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 79, with infrastructure at 23. That 23 on infrastructure puts East 8 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 49 and housing at 41 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 72 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 8 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
22% of the 2,207 homes recorded on East 8 Street are rent-stabilized, 478 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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E 8 Street runs through Mapleton, Gravesend & Homecrest and Kensington, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).