E 87 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does E 87 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts E 87 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (57) and tree cover (77). Parking (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 87 Street name residential noise than any other category, 141 of them, and parking ranks 22 among numbered streets. Across every category, 470 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 112 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 101. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. About 71 reports per 100 homes sit on East 87 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 87 Street, 31 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 16 violations. PLUTO counts 355 residential buildings and 664 homes on East 87 Street, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 27 people injured in crashes on East 87 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 56 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 36. That 36 on quietness puts East 87 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 48 and traffic safety at 37 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 87 Street ranks 31 on food nearby and 26 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 87 Street, at 77. East 87 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where East 87 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 57.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 664 on East 87 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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