14 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 14 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 14 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (70) and food nearby (90). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 14 Street, with 160 reports. Across every category, 679 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 46 reports, and dirty condition with 44. Reports on 14 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. About 78 reports per 100 homes sit on 14 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 14 Street carries 66 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 14 Street, 72 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 46 more, and bed bugs for 41. City housing records put 868 homes in 277 residential buildings on 14 Street, 69 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 14 Street holds about 3.1 homes.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 55, with housing at 28. That 28 on housing puts 14 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 33 and cleanliness at 32 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 80 and transit 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 14 Street, at 90. 14 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where 14 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 68.
About 10% of the 868 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 78 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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