26 Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 26 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 21, 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 26 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (56) and transit (88). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 26 Street name commercial noise than any other category, 106 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 335 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name commercial noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 59 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 56. The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 93 homes on file, that is about 360 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 26 Street carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. Structure is what HPD writes up most on 26 Street, 13 violations of it. Pests follows at 12 violations. PLUTO counts 33 residential buildings and 93 homes on 26 Street, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 26 Street have injured 12 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 16, with parking at 7. 26 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 11 and cleanliness at 10 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 63 and tree cover 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. 26 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 26 Street is housing, at 51.
Of the 93 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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