29 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 29 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 29 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and transit (68). Housing (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 29 Street, with 83 reports. Across every category, 225 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 22 reports, and residential noise with 16. In all, 37 distinct 311 categories are represented on 29 Street. The 311 file works out to about 83 reports for every 100 homes on 29 Street.
29 Street carries 33 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 29 Street is pests, at 23 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (20 violations) and bed bugs (20). City housing records put 270 homes in 68 residential buildings on 29 Street, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4 homes each.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 29 Street ranks 73 on cleanliness and 23 on parking. A 23 on parking places 29 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 58 and infrastructure at 50 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 55 and tree cover 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 68. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 29 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 270 homes on file, 28 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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29 Street runs through Sunset Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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