Essex Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Essex Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 58, 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 Essex Street in the bottom 24% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (77) and tree cover (92); traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Essex Street. 52 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. HPD has cited 57 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Blocked driveway is the most-filed, with 95 reports. Tree cover ranks 92, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 58 against every street in the city. Only about 1% of the 809 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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