4 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 4 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 4 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (87). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 4 Street, with 128 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among numbered streets. Across every category, 258 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name illegal parking. Damaged tree follows with 39 reports, and blocked driveway with 23. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. About 37 reports per 100 homes sit on 4 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 4 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 4 Street is bed bugs, at 35 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 22 violations. City housing records put 692 homes in 210 residential buildings on 4 Street, 67 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 82 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 23. A 23 on infrastructure places 4 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 74 and parking at 52. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 80 and transit at 57. 4 Street ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 4 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 4 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 692 homes on file, 14 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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4 Street runs through Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).