20 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 20 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 20 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (68) and food nearby (74). Cleanliness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 20 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 78 of them, and cleanliness ranks 22 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 20 Street holds 346 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 56 reports, then residential noise at 39. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 695 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 17 Class C violations on 20 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 20 Street is bed bugs, at 32 violations. Pests accounts for 27 more, and doors for 10. The housing file lists 208 residential buildings on 20 Street holding 695 homes, with 61 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 20 Street have injured 17 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 20 Street ranks 63 on traffic safety and 26 on infrastructure. That 26 on infrastructure puts 20 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 53 and housing at 49 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 70 and transit 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 20 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 20 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 68.
About 9% of the 695 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 55 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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