36 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 36 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 36 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (44) and food nearby (81). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 36 Street, with 284 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among numbered streets. Across every category, 728 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 93 reports, and drinking with 65. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 354 homes on file, that is about 206 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 36 Street carries 8 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 36 Street, 53 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 33 violations, then bed bugs at 31. City housing records put 354 homes in 119 residential buildings on 36 Street, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 34 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 7. 36 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. Parking ranks 29 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 18. Against every street in the city, 36 Street ranks 71 on transit and 67 on tree cover. 36 Street ranks 81 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 36 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 43.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 354 on 36 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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