Etna Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Etna Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 64, 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 Etna Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (68) and tree cover (77). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Etna Street, with 764 reports, and parking ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Etna Street holds 1,013 reports, and illegal parking is 75% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (59 reports) and residential noise (37). Reports on Etna Street span 55 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 245 reports for every 100 homes on Etna Street.
The HPD file on Etna Street carries 19 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Etna Street, 26 violations of it. Doors follows at 23 violations, then paint and lead at 22. The housing file lists 180 residential buildings on Etna Street holding 414 homes, with 26 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on Etna Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 36, with infrastructure at 3. That 3 on infrastructure puts Etna Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 26 and quietness at 23 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 72 and food nearby 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Etna Street ranks 77 on tree cover, 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 68.
The housing file puts 14% of the 414 homes on Etna Street in rent stabilization, 56 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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