Essex Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Essex Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 32, 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 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (72) and tree cover (92). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Essex Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Essex Street have injured 52 people, and traffic safety ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Blocked driveway draws more reports than anything else here, 95 of them. The whole 311 file on Essex Street holds 618 reports, and blocked driveway is 15% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (69 reports) and unsanitary condition (54). Reports on Essex Street span 70 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 809 homes on file, that is about 76 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 58 Class C violations on Essex Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 107 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (40 violations) and structure (28). 408 residential buildings on Essex Street hold the 809 homes on file, 63 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 70, with infrastructure at 13. Essex Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Parking ranks 21 on the same scale, with housing at 21. The citywide frame puts transit at 53 and food nearby at 42. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Essex Street, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is where Essex Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 809 homes on file, 9 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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