E 88 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does E 88 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against numbered streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts E 88 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (95) and tree cover (78). Infrastructure (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 88 Street, with 148 reports. Across every category, 342 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 105 reports, and heat and hot water with 33. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 721 homes on file, that is about 47 reports per 100 homes.
East 88 Street carries 14 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 88 Street is pests, at 40 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (18 violations) and electrical (13). The housing file lists 382 residential buildings on East 88 Street holding 721 homes, with 32 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on East 88 Street have injured 34 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 88 Street ranks 57 on housing and 29 on parking. A 29 on parking places East 88 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 49 and traffic safety at 29 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 29, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 88 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 88 Street is quietness, at 95.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 721 on East 88 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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