Eckford Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Eckford Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Eckford Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (88) and food nearby (93). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Eckford Street, with 62 reports. Across every category, 355 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (27 reports) and noise (23). In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on Eckford Street. About 46 reports per 100 homes sit on Eckford Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Eckford Street carries 15 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Eckford Street is bed bugs, at 55 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (45 violations) and structure (10). The housing file lists 171 residential buildings on Eckford Street holding 775 homes, with 107 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.5 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Eckford Street ranks 62 on parking and 17 on cleanliness. That 17 on cleanliness puts Eckford Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 53 and housing at 40 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 79 and tree cover 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Eckford Street ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Eckford Street is traffic safety, at 88.
About 9% of the 775 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 66 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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