Brooklyn's Best Streets: From Park Slope to Bay Ridge (2026)

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Brooklyn averages 53 across roughly 1,300 fully scored streets, second in the city behind Manhattan and comfortably ahead of the other three boroughs. Its best blocks sit downtown and in the brownstone belt: Willoughby Street at 86 is the highest reading in the borough outside the single-development stubs, and Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights reaches 85. Brooklyn's real strength is the quietness column, where it holds 59 of the city's 200 quietest streets against Manhattan's 13. Its weakness is the sanitation column, where it posts the lowest cleanliness average of the five boroughs. North Brooklyn is the clearest case of that split: Williamsburg and Greenpoint both score respectably overall and both sit near the floor of the city on cleanliness. Read both columns before you decide a Brooklyn block is the one.