15 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 15 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 15 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (71) and food nearby (88). Housing (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on 15 Street, with 271 reports. Across every category, 824 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 137 reports, and blocked driveway with 46. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 15 Street carries roughly 82 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 188 Class C violations on 15 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 15 Street is pests, at 86 violations. Bed bugs follows at 67 violations, then doors at 50. City housing records put 1,007 homes in 212 residential buildings on 15 Street, 103 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 38 people injured in crashes on 15 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 53, with cleanliness at 25. That 25 on cleanliness puts 15 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 36 and infrastructure at 31 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 78 and transit 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 15 Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 15 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 71.
About 20% of the 1,007 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 195 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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15 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).