31 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 31 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 31 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and food nearby (79). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on 31 Street, with 30 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 31 Street holds 96 reports, and heat and hot water is 31% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (30 reports) and drinking (14). Reports on 31 Street span 30 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 41 reports for every 100 homes on 31 Street.
31 Street carries 15 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 31 Street is pests, at 17 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 11 more. PLUTO counts 79 residential buildings and 235 homes on 31 Street, with 21 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 31 Street holds about 3 homes.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 73, with traffic safety at 34. 31 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 43 and housing at 38 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 31 Street ranks 71 on transit and 41 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. 31 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 31 Street is quietness, at 99.
25% of the 235 homes recorded on 31 Street are rent-stabilized, 50 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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