32 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 32 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.

Calm 30, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts 32 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (62) and food nearby (83). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 32 Street, with 27 reports. Across every category, 95 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 20 reports, then street condition at 13. The file runs across 29 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 32 Street carries roughly 61 reports per 100 of them.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 32 Street. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 20 violations on file. Pests accounts for 17 more. The housing file lists 68 residential buildings on 32 Street holding 155 homes, with 31 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.

NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on 32 Street since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 54 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 7. 32 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 33 and traffic safety at 12. Against every street in the city, 32 Street ranks 78 on transit and 38 on tree cover. 32 Street ranks 83 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 155 on 32 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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