42 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 42 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 42 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (79) and tree cover (89). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on 42 Street, with 606 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 42 Street holds 2,540 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 24% of it. Residential noise follows with 503 reports, and illegal parking with 392. Reports on 42 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. About 136 reports per 100 homes sit on 42 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 141 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 42 Street is pests, at 206 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (118 violations) and paint and lead (75). City housing records put 1,863 homes in 440 residential buildings on 42 Street, 148 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 32 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 72 among numbered streets and housing ranks 25. 42 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 45 and parking at 27. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 82 and transit at 72. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. 42 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where 42 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 1,863 homes on file, 324 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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