27 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 27 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 27 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (93) and transit (80). Infrastructure (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 27 Street, with 478 reports. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (107 reports) and illegal dumping (24). The file runs across 37 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 136 homes on file, that is about 291 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 27 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 27 Street, 10 violations of it. City housing records put 136 homes in 51 residential buildings on 27 Street, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 9 people injured in crashes on 27 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 66, with parking at 0. A 0 on parking places 27 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 35 and traffic safety at 19 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 27 Street ranks 63 on food nearby and 40 on tree cover. 27 Street ranks 80 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
About 6% of the 136 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 8 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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