23 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 23 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 23 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (82) and food nearby (78). Housing (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Unsanitary condition is the most-filed complaint on 23 Street, with 118 reports. Across every category, 421 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name unsanitary condition. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (109 reports) and illegal parking (65). In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on 23 Street. The 311 file works out to about 83 reports for every 100 homes on 23 Street.
HPD has cited 67 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 23 Street is pests, at 50 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 32 more, and paint and lead for 28. PLUTO counts 134 residential buildings and 508 homes on 23 Street, with 69 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.8 homes each.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 49, with parking at 31. A 31 on parking places 23 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 47 and cleanliness at 44. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 69 and transit at 64. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 23 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 23 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 82.
The housing file puts 7% of the 508 homes on 23 Street in rent stabilization, 32 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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