13 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does 13 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 13 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and food nearby (87). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 13 Street, with 112 reports, and cleanliness ranks 18 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 13 Street holds 410 reports, and illegal parking is 27% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 44 reports, and sidewalk condition with 31. The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. About 48 reports per 100 homes sit on 13 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 26 Class C violations on 13 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 13 Street, 45 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (37 violations) and doors (16). PLUTO counts 254 residential buildings and 853 homes on 13 Street, with 88 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 68 among numbered streets and housing ranks 39. That 39 on housing puts 13 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 56 and infrastructure at 47 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 13 Street ranks 82 on tree cover and 75 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
About 11% of the 853 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 86 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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13 Street runs through Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, 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).