3 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does 3 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 3 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (96) and tree cover (91). Cleanliness (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 3 Street, with 163 reports, and cleanliness ranks 26 among numbered streets. Across every category, 636 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Dirty condition follows with 52 reports, and for hire vehicle complaint with 38. The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 3 Street carries roughly 41 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 27 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 3 Street is bed bugs, at 79 violations. Pests accounts for 63 more, and doors for 19. 291 residential buildings on 3 Street hold the 1,570 homes on file, 123 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 3 Street holds about 5.4 homes.
NYPD records 18 people injured in crashes on 3 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 38. That 38 on infrastructure puts 3 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 66 on the same scale, with quietness at 51. Against every street in the city, 3 Street ranks 86 on food nearby and 69 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 3 Street, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 3 Street is traffic safety, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 6% of the 1,570 homes on file, 87 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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3 Street runs through Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).