E 81 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does E 81 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 81 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and tree cover (81). Housing (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on East 81 Street, with 49 reports. Across every category, 309 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name blocked driveway. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 35 reports, then residential noise at 26. In all, 47 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 81 Street. The 311 file works out to about 50 reports for every 100 homes on East 81 Street.
East 81 Street carries 31 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 27 violations on file. 302 residential buildings on East 81 Street hold the 622 homes on file, 54 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 81 Street holds about 2.1 homes.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 81 Street ranks 70 on parking and 45 on infrastructure. That 45 on infrastructure puts East 81 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 63 and traffic safety at 59 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 81 Street, at 81. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 81 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 81 Street is cleanliness, at 87.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 622 on East 81 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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