Bushwick vs Bed Stuy

The middle street in Bed-Stuy scores 52 out of 100 and the middle street in Bushwick 49, which puts Bed-Stuy 30th of the 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods on this site and Bushwick 38th. Three points between two neighborhoods sharing a border is close enough to ignore. The columns underneath are not close at all.

Bushwick holds the cleaner streets, 34 to 27. Bed-Stuy holds quietness, 40 to 22, and traffic safety, 46 to 37. Access is the column the two agree on, with Bushwick a few points ahead on what its blocks reach on foot.

The 311 logs do not open the same way. Residential noise tops Bushwick's, at 10,307 of the 81,294 complaints and violations recorded on its streets, or 13%. Illegal parking tops Bed-Stuy's, at 19,503 of 121,963, or 16%, with residential noise second.

Bushwick is the only one of the 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods on this site where a noise category is the most-filed record rather than something at the curb, and the quietness column says the same thing in one number: Bushwick reads 22, last of the 48.

St Nicholas Avenue is the best-scoring street in Bushwick at 71 out of 100, on a quietness reading of 75 and an access reading of 87. Traffic safety is where it gives everything back, at 33, on a column that counts NYPD crash injuries against the homes on the block.

The two highest blocks in Bed-Stuy are one-block stubs, Herkimer Place and Kane Place, both under 200 metres end to end. Skillman Street is the best full-length street at 66, and it gets there on a quietness reading of 90, a number a through street in central Brooklyn almost never posts.