Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Bed-Stuy's middle street scores 52 of 100, 30th of 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods, measured over 78 scored streets. Twelve of them grade B or better and 23 grade C or lower. Herkimer Pl, the best-scoring residential block, reads 68 and Stockton St reads 35, so 33 points separate two blocks in a neighborhood people discuss as one place.

Cleanliness is the weak column at 27 of 100, 44th of 48, and illegal parking is the most-filed record on Bed-Stuy streets, 19,503 of 121,963 complaints and violations, 16% of the log. Access reads 74, 8th in the borough, and half of Bed-Stuy's scored streets sit between 47 and 57, so the middle of the neighborhood is packed tight and the ends do the work. Nostrand Ave carries 8,180 records, the heaviest ledger here. Crown Heights, directly south, has a middle street at 53.

Median livability · 30th of 48 in Brooklyn

Ralph Ave 35Brooklyn median 55Dekalb Ave 68

12 of 78 scored Bed-Stuy streets grade B or better.

Best blockHerkimer Pl 68Lowest-scoring blockStockton St 35

121,963 reports and violations · counted through Sep 15, 2026

Stockton St35 Herkimer Pl68

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Bed-Stuy on the record

Bed-Stuy's 78 scored streets run from 35 to 68, and half of them sit between 47 and 57.
12 of those 78 streets grade B or better and 23 grade C or lower.
Herkimer Pl scores 68, the best of the residential blocks at least half inside Bed-Stuy, and Stockton St scores 35, the lowest.
Cleanliness averages 27 of 100, 44th of 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods, and Bed-Stuy streets run from 2 to 95 on that column.
Quietness averages 40, 36th of 48, and access averages 74, 8th.
Illegal parking is the most-filed record on Bed-Stuy streets, 19,503 of 121,963 complaints and violations, or 16% of the log.
Nostrand Ave carries 8,180 of those records, more than any other street in the neighborhood.
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bedstuy both resolve to this page.

Where Bed-Stuy is strong, and where it is not

Each row is Bed-Stuy's average on a 0 to 100 scale. The grey span is how far its own streets spread. The thin line is the Brooklyn median.

Quiet4036th of 48 in Brooklyn

Clean2744th of 48 in Brooklyn

Traffic safety4632nd of 48 in Brooklyn

Street crime3340th of 48 in Brooklyn

Access748th of 48 in Brooklyn

Most filedIllegal parking, 19,503 of 121,963 reports (16%)

The best and lowest-scoring blocks on Bed-Stuy

Every street with at least a tenth of its length inside the neighborhood. Streets are scored end to end.

Stockton St35 Herkimer Pl68BushwickCrown HeightsClinton HillOcean HillSouth WilliamsburgProspect HeightsEast Williamsburg¼ miN ↑

Every street in Bed-Stuy, ranked

87 streets, 78 scored

87 streets in Bed-Stuy, 78 of them scored. Sortable by every column.
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1	Dekalb Avenue2,674 reports	75	25	40	64	87	68	40% inside Bed-Stuy
2	Herkimer Place81 reports	4	79	87	53	74	68	100%
3	Kane Place40 reports · 71% rent-stabilized	81	95	98	38	58	67	100%
4	Skillman Street167 reports	90	41	45	79	68	66	100%
5	Agate Court12 reports	95	17	78	45	66	63	100%
6	Fulton Street4,756 reports	63	55	13	36	93	63	36% inside Bed-Stuy
7	Myrtle Avenue2,737 reports	66	21	27	34	87	63	32% inside Bed-Stuy
8	Tompkins Avenue1,225 reports	52	56	30	57	75	62	100%
9	Verona Place13 reports	49	64	74	12	74	62	100%
10	Hart Street1,721 reports	45	15	65	53	85	61	49% inside Bed-Stuy
11	Irving Place47 reports	66	18	98	11	70	60	30% inside Bed-Stuy
12	Kent Avenue1,313 reports	45	12	32	91	63	59	18% inside Bed-Stuy
13	Franklin Avenue2,336 reports	36	11	29	67	86	58	53% inside Bed-Stuy
14	Jefferson Avenue2,124 reports	43	20	74	43	80	58	70% inside Bed-Stuy
15	Malcolm X Boulevard821 reports	27	16	79	54	74	58	100%
16	Patchen Avenue821 reports	47	17	36	53	77	58	100%
17	Brevoort Place58 reports	34	92	23	49	79	57	100%
18	Greene Avenue3,003 reports	30	15	59	47	82	57	51% inside Bed-Stuy
19	Lafayette Avenue2,347 reports	50	13	37	44	85	57	60% inside Bed-Stuy
20	Macon Street1,189 reports	51	4	71	36	81	57	93% inside Bed-Stuy
21	Hopkins Street29 reports	40	81	35	38	74	56	100%
22	Lefferts Place464 reports	48	14	81	30	79	56	74% inside Bed-Stuy
23	Marcus Garvey Boulevard752 reports	47	21	39	66	70	56	100%
24	Alice Court15 reports	85	46	57	2	67	55	100%
25	Classon Avenue4,846 reports	46	21	26	72	82	55	21% inside Bed-Stuy
26	Claver Place53 reports	15	80	52	5	75	55	100%
27	Throop Avenue783 reports	78	27	10	61	76	55	77% inside Bed-Stuy
28	Lewis Avenue525 reports	63	53	17	31	70	54	100%
29	Spencer Court61 reports · 56% rent-stabilized	23	2	28	95	86	54	100%
30	Clifton Place670 reports	22	7	63	27	87	53	71% inside Bed-Stuy
31	Decatur Street1,553 reports	41	11	47	36	81	53	57% inside Bed-Stuy
32	Mac Donough Street1,466 reports	57	5	53	31	80	53	88% inside Bed-Stuy
33	Putnam Avenue2,525 reports	25	8	64	34	76	53	67% inside Bed-Stuy
34	Suydam Place17 reports	29	5	68	81	59	53	100%
35	Atlantic Avenue4,247 reports	49	19	15	40	90	52	14% inside Bed-Stuy
36	Hancock Street1,956 reports	40	16	43	41	81	52	68% inside Bed-Stuy
37	Kosciuszko Street723 reports	41	12	58	11	78	52	92% inside Bed-Stuy
38	Marcy Avenue1,138 reports	33	7	15	30	88	52	53% inside Bed-Stuy
39	Saratoga Avenue894 reports	72	20	18	37	69	52	13% inside Bed-Stuy
40	Spencer Place189 reports	4	2	87	37	77	52	100%
41	Willoughby Avenue2,405 reports	21	6	50	38	84	52	46% inside Bed-Stuy
42	Columbus Place80 reports	80	38	48	8	72	51	100%
43	Marion Street510 reports	20	18	52	32	76	51	52% inside Bed-Stuy
44	Nostrand Avenue8,180 reports	29	5	48	43	74	51	17% inside Bed-Stuy
45	Sandford Street39 reports	56	93	33	18	57	51	100%
46	Kossuth Place38 reports	10	75	33	13	71	50	13% inside Bed-Stuy
47	Quincy Street1,639 reports	36	18	49	28	78	50	95% inside Bed-Stuy
48	Albany Avenue1,956 reports	64	40	17	47	57	49	6% inside Bed-Stuy
49	Bainbridge Street1,161 reports	7	3	61	13	82	49	78% inside Bed-Stuy
50	Bedford Avenue7,313 reports	30	9	35	56	79	49	14% inside Bed-Stuy
51	Herkimer Court9 reports	73	31	42	6	67	49	100%
52	Hull Street1,751 reports	0	26	73	34	73	49	13% inside Bed-Stuy
53	Spencer Street431 reports	53	45	56	32	67	49	100%
54	Stuyvesant Avenue833 reports	49	12	14	36	69	48	100%
55	Sumpter Street986 reports	23	4	67	39	73	48	46% inside Bed-Stuy
56	Gates Avenue3,126 reports	21	12	31	17	82	47	57% inside Bed-Stuy
57	Halsey Street1,835 reports	37	13	15	26	83	47	65% inside Bed-Stuy
58	Howard Avenue1,363 reports	62	10	14	25	74	47	30% inside Bed-Stuy
59	St Andrews Place21 reports	25	43	54	27	70	47	100%
60	Arlington Place159 reports	8	12	34	35	79	46	100%
61	Chauncey Street1,513 reports	27	16	49	29	78	46	50% inside Bed-Stuy
62	Lexington Avenue1,201 reports	12	6	66	12	75	46	93% inside Bed-Stuy
63	Madison Street2,162 reports	16	21	51	19	76	46	75% inside Bed-Stuy
64	Herkimer Street2,472 reports	18	25	33	11	83	44	57% inside Bed-Stuy
65	Mac Dougal Street743 reports	19	30	26	11	76	44	37% inside Bed-Stuy
66	Van Buren Street649 reports	33	23	25	33	65	44	88% inside Bed-Stuy
67	Vernon Avenue1,139 reports	10	3	55	13	79	44	100%
68	Downing Street167 reports	42	16	27	32	73	43	18% inside Bed-Stuy
69	Monroe Street1,553 reports	13	6	53	13	72	43	100%
70	Buffalo Avenue575 reports	74	10	1	21	63	42	15% inside Bed-Stuy
71	Rochester Avenue590 reports	33	11	2	13	75	42	12% inside Bed-Stuy
72	Taaffe Place416 reports	27	20	39	30	67	42	83% inside Bed-Stuy
73	Walworth Street98 reports	89	17	10	5	60	42	100%
74	Pulaski Street727 reports	20	4	22	11	77	40	100%
75	Ellery Street324 reports	10	13	18	7	80	38	79% inside Bed-Stuy
76	Park Avenue877 reports	15	8	12	9	70	36	36% inside Bed-Stuy
77	Ralph Avenue2,256 reports	26	16	4	13	57	35	21% inside Bed-Stuy
78	Stockton Street283 reports	2	7	26	2	62	35	100%
79	Jewell Mckoy Lane3 reports	·	·	·	·	·	not scored	100%
80	Perry Place7 reports	·	·	·	·	91	not scored	100%
81	Delmonico Place17 reports	·	·	·	·	67	not scored	100%
82	Martin Luther King Jr Place22 reports	·	·	·	·	79	not scored	100%
83	Little Nassau Street51 reports	·	·	·	·	31	not scored	100%
84	Hattie Jones Place4 reports	·	·	·	·	·	not scored	100%
85	Bedford Place11 reports	·	·	·	·	76	not scored	100%
86	Hunterfly Place17 reports	·	·	·	·	59	not scored	100%
87	Warsoff Place5 reports	·	·	·	·	50	not scored	100%

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Questions about Bed-Stuy

Is Bed-Stuy a good place to live?

Bed-Stuy's middle street scores 52 of 100, 30th of 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods, measured over 78 scored streets. Twelve of those streets grade B or better and 23 grade C or lower, with Herkimer Pl at 68 and Stockton St at 35. Access is the strongest column at 74 of 100 and cleanliness the weakest at 27.

Is Bed-Stuy quiet?

Quietness averages 40 of 100 across Bed-Stuy's 78 scored streets, 36th of 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods, and those streets run from 0 to 95 on the quiet column.

Is Bed-Stuy clean?

Cleanliness averages 27 of 100 in Bed-Stuy, 44th of 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods. Illegal parking is the most-filed record on these streets at 19,503 of 121,963 complaints and violations, 16% of everything logged.