Plaza Street E, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Plaza Street E in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Plaza Street E in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (96) and transit (89). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Plaza Street E, with 148 reports, and parking ranks 19 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 186 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 80% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Plaza Street E span 28 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 34 reports for every 100 homes on Plaza Street E.
The HPD file on Plaza Street E holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 6 residential buildings and 553 homes on Plaza Street E, with 0 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 92 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Plaza Street E have injured 12 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Plaza Street E ranks 93 on housing and 32 on traffic safety. Plaza Street E sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 82 and infrastructure at 74. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 79 and tree cover at 39. Plaza Street E ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Plaza Street E is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Plaza Street E is quietness, at 96.
About 18% of the 553 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 98 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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Plaza Street E runs through Park Slope and Prospect Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).