E 86 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does E 86 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 86 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (75) and tree cover (82). Transit (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 86 Street, with 144 reports. Across every category, 503 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 142 reports, and blocked driveway with 101. In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 86 Street. The 311 file works out to about 50 reports for every 100 homes on East 86 Street.
East 86 Street carries 49 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. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 86 Street, 64 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 43 more, and mold for 24. City housing records put 1,008 homes in 460 residential buildings on East 86 Street, 54 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 37 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 86 Street ranks 60 on infrastructure and 36 on cleanliness. A 36 on cleanliness places East 86 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 53 on the same scale, with housing at 37. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 27 and transit at 24. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 86 Street, at 82. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 86 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where East 86 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 65.
4% of the 1,008 homes recorded on East 86 Street are rent-stabilized, 36 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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