Erskine Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Erskine Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Erskine Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and tree cover (57). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Erskine Street. 72 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Erskine Street is led by residential noise, with 129 reports. Residential noise accounts for 27% of the 475 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (80 reports) and heat and hot water (62). In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on Erskine Street. About 41 reports per 100 homes sit on Erskine Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 10 Class C violations on Erskine Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 12 residential buildings on Erskine Street holding 1,157 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 96 homes each.
Among built-up residential streets, Erskine Street ranks 78 on housing and 17 on quietness. Erskine Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 70 and parking at 48. Against every street in the city, Erskine Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 19 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 57. Erskine Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
The housing file puts 45% of the 1,157 homes on Erskine Street in rent stabilization, 267 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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