E 96 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does E 96 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against numbered streets. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 96 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (76) and tree cover (92). Housing (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on East 96 Street, with 166 reports. Across every category, 1,545 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name blocked driveway. Heat and hot water follows with 162 reports, and residential noise with 132. Reports on East 96 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. About 85 reports per 100 homes sit on East 96 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 319 Class C violations on East 96 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 17 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 275 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (172 violations) and paint and lead (134). 567 residential buildings on East 96 Street hold the 1,826 homes on file, 246 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
NYPD records 84 people injured in crashes on East 96 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 57, with traffic safety at 30. East 96 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 51 and quietness at 49 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 96 Street ranks 63 on food nearby and 49 on transit. East 96 Street ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 96 Street is cleanliness, at 76.
14% of the 1,826 homes recorded on East 96 Street are rent-stabilized, 252 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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