19 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 19 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 19 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (54) and tree cover (84). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 19 Street, with 150 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 19 Street holds 351 reports, and illegal parking is 43% of it. After that the file runs to water system (21 reports) and illegal dumping (21). In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on 19 Street. The 311 file works out to about 65 reports for every 100 homes on 19 Street.
19 Street carries 15 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 33 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 31 violations. 188 residential buildings on 19 Street hold the 538 homes on file, 55 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 19 Street holds about 2.9 homes.
Reported crashes on 19 Street have injured 29 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 45, with infrastructure at 9. 19 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 30 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 26. Against every street in the city, 19 Street ranks 72 on food nearby and 64 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where 19 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 54.
17% of the 538 homes recorded on 19 Street are rent-stabilized, 81 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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