2 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 2 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 2 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and food nearby (89). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 2 Street, with 180 reports. Across every category, 736 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Street condition follows with 50 reports, and heat and hot water with 42. Reports on 2 Street span 64 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 2 Street carries roughly 75 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 19 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 2 Street, 53 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (49 violations) and paint and lead (11). 315 residential buildings on 2 Street hold the 984 homes on file, 83 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 2 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 72, with cleanliness at 19. 2 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 53 and parking at 22. Tree cover ranks 86 and transit 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 2 Street, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 2 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
10% of the 984 homes recorded on 2 Street are rent-stabilized, 101 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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