E 98 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does E 98 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against numbered streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 98 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (71) and tree cover (81). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 98 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 98 Street have injured 150 people, and traffic safety ranks 10 among numbered streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 98 Street, with 239 reports. Across every category, 1,151 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 189 reports, then heat and hot water at 165. Reports on East 98 Street span 74 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 90 reports for every 100 homes on East 98 Street.
East 98 Street carries 182 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 98 Street is pests, at 138 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 91 more, and doors for 71. The housing file lists 377 residential buildings on East 98 Street holding 1,275 homes, with 71 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 50 among numbered streets and housing ranks 22. A 22 on housing places East 98 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Parking ranks 47 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 35. Against every street in the city, East 98 Street ranks 55 on food nearby and 53 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 98 Street, at 81. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 98 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 98 Street is infrastructure, at 71.
The housing file puts 17% of the 1,275 homes on East 98 Street in rent stabilization, 213 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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