28 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 28 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against numbered streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 28 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and transit (69). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 28 Street, with 39 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 28 Street holds 57 reports, and illegal parking is 68% of it. Air quality follows with 11 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 10. Reports on 28 Street span 20 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 22 reports for every 100 homes on 28 Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 28 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 22 residential buildings on 28 Street hold the 261 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 28 Street holds about 12 homes.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 81, with infrastructure at 64. 28 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Housing ranks 81 on the same scale, with parking at 71. Food nearby ranks 45 and tree cover 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on 28 Street, at 69. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 28 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 261 on 28 Street.
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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