E 85 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does E 85 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 85 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (82). Transit (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 85 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 175 of them. Blocked driveway accounts for 36% of the 483 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 83 reports, and heat and hot water with 46. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. About 47 reports per 100 homes sit on East 85 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 85 Street carries 36 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 85 Street is pests, at 47 violations. Heat and hot water accounts for 10 more. City housing records put 1,019 homes in 483 residential buildings on East 85 Street, 74 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 85 Street holds about 2.1 homes.
Since 2021, 52 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 85 Street ranks 76 on quietness and 28 on traffic safety. East 85 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 66 and parking at 41. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 24, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 85 Street ranks 82 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 85 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where East 85 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 89.
None of the 1,019 homes on file 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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