17 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 17 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 17 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (89) and tree cover (85). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 17 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 103 of them, and cleanliness ranks 16 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 17 Street holds 434 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Water system is the next most-filed at 40 reports, then sidewalk condition at 28. The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,138 homes on file, that is about 38 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 23 Class C violations on 17 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 17 Street is bed bugs, at 72 violations. Pests follows at 57 violations, then paint and lead at 16. 355 residential buildings on 17 Street hold the 1,138 homes on file, 121 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 24 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 71 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 27. 17 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts parking at 70 and housing at 52 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 17 Street ranks 76 on food nearby and 69 on transit. 17 Street ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 17 Street is quietness, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 1,138 homes on file, 96 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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17 Street runs through Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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