39 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 39 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 33, 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 39 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (71) and tree cover (81). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 39 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 392 of them, and cleanliness ranks 11 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 39 Street holds 1,139 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (137 reports) and derelict vehicles (59). In all, 72 distinct 311 categories are represented on 39 Street. About 122 reports per 100 homes sit on 39 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 57 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 116 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (103 violations) and paint and lead (52). PLUTO counts 272 residential buildings and 934 homes on 39 Street, with 133 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 116 people injured in crashes on 39 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 34 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 11. 39 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts housing at 31 and parking at 16 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 39 Street ranks 74 on food nearby and 69 on transit. 39 Street ranks 81 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 39 Street is quietness, at 71.
About 6% of the 934 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 58 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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