38 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 38 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 38 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and tree cover (73). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 38 Street. 54 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 6 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 227 of them. Across every category, 356 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 64% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 56 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 18. In all, 46 distinct 311 categories are represented on 38 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 38 Street carries roughly 86 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on 38 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 38 Street, 30 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 24 more, and doors for 15. 135 residential buildings on 38 Street hold the 416 homes on file, 43 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 38 Street holds about 3.1 homes.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 55, with parking at 11. That 11 on parking puts 38 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 54 on the same scale, with housing at 48. Against every street in the city, 38 Street ranks 71 on transit and 68 on food nearby. 38 Street ranks 73 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 38 Street is cleanliness, at 83.
None of the 416 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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