E 89 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does E 89 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts E 89 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (79) and tree cover (76). Cleanliness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on East 89 Street, with 91 reports, and cleanliness ranks 20 among numbered streets. Across every category, 405 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (75 reports) and residential noise (33). In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 89 Street. Set against the 784 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.
East 89 Street carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 54 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 26 violations, then bed bugs at 24. 393 residential buildings on East 89 Street hold the 784 homes on file, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on East 89 Street have injured 20 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 46, with housing at 37. That 37 on housing puts East 89 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 43 and infrastructure at 42 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 89 Street ranks 42 on food nearby and 31 on transit. East 89 Street ranks 76 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
Of the 784 homes on file, none 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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