Erasmus Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Erasmus Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Erasmus Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and food nearby (86). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Erasmus Street, with 177 reports. The whole 311 file on Erasmus Street holds 337 reports, and heat and hot water is 53% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 35 reports, then illegal parking at 30. Reports on Erasmus Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Erasmus Street carries roughly 99 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 75 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Erasmus Street, 28 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (20 violations) and structure (19). 28 residential buildings on Erasmus Street hold the 340 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Erasmus Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Erasmus Street ranks 57 on infrastructure and 27 on parking. Erasmus Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 40 and quietness at 34 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 83 and tree cover 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Erasmus Street ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 51% of the 340 homes on file, 175 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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