34 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 34 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 34 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (71) and transit (89). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on 34 Street, with 31 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 34 Street holds 109 reports, and blocked driveway is 28% of it. Illegal parking follows with 23 reports. In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on 34 Street. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on 34 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on 34 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 26 residential buildings and 145 homes on 34 Street, with 10 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on 34 Street have injured 14 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 34 Street ranks 48 on quietness and 14 on traffic safety. 34 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts housing at 47 and parking at 31 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 89 and tree cover 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 34 Street ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where 34 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 71.
35% of the 145 homes recorded on 34 Street are rent-stabilized, 43 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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