37 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 37 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 37 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (81) and food nearby (72). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 37 Street. 46 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 75 reports. The whole 311 file on 37 Street holds 276 reports, and illegal parking is 27% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (23 reports) and illegal dumping (22). In all, 43 distinct 311 categories are represented on 37 Street. About 115 reports per 100 homes sit on 37 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 37 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 37 Street is bed bugs, at 11 violations. City housing records put 240 homes in 78 residential buildings on 37 Street, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 37 Street holds about 3.1 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 70 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 3. A 3 on traffic safety places 37 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 20 and parking at 5 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 70 and tree cover 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. 37 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 37 Street is housing, at 81.
3% of the 240 homes recorded on 37 Street are rent-stabilized, 8 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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