18 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 18 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 18 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (81) and tree cover (88). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 18 Street, with 138 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among numbered streets. Across every category, 428 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (36 reports) and water system (35). In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on 18 Street. The 311 file works out to about 60 reports for every 100 homes on 18 Street.
The HPD file on 18 Street carries 31 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 18 Street, 44 violations of it. Pests accounts for 38 more. City housing records put 719 homes in 233 residential buildings on 18 Street, 71 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on 18 Street have injured 25 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 18 Street ranks 41 on traffic safety and 24 on infrastructure. That 24 on infrastructure puts 18 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 39 and housing at 37 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 79 and transit 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 18 Street, at 88. 18 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
4% of the 719 homes recorded on 18 Street are rent-stabilized, 29 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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