16 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does 16 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 55, 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 16 Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (88) and tree cover (89). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 16 Street, with 154 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among numbered streets. Across every category, 668 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 63 reports, and rodent with 56. The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,257 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 16 Street carries 34 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 16 Street, 81 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (70 violations) and paint and lead (30). 375 residential buildings on 16 Street hold the 1,257 homes on file, 121 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 16 Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 16 Street ranks 65 on quietness and 14 on infrastructure. That 14 on infrastructure puts 16 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 45 and housing at 42 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 16 Street ranks 85 on food nearby and 74 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 16 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 16 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 79.
11% of the 1,257 homes recorded on 16 Street are rent-stabilized, 125 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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