E 9 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does E 9 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 9 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and tree cover (96). Parking (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 9 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 207 of them, and parking ranks 28 among numbered streets. Across every category, 910 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 174 reports, and residential noise with 111. Reports on East 9 Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 54 reports for every 100 homes on East 9 Street.
Inspectors have written 48 Class C violations on East 9 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 9 Street is pests, at 54 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 46 more, and doors for 29. PLUTO counts 696 residential buildings and 1,681 homes on East 9 Street, with 88 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on East 9 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 71 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 43. A 43 on infrastructure places East 9 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 65 on the same scale, with housing at 57. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 77 and transit at 60. East 9 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 9 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 9 Street is traffic safety, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 1,681 homes on file, 198 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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E 9 Street runs through Mapleton, Gravesend & Homecrest and Kensington, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).