43 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 43 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 52, 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 43 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and tree cover (88). Cleanliness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 43 Street, with 441 reports, and cleanliness ranks 17 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,593 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 211 reports, and blocked driveway with 102. Reports on 43 Street span 80 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 43 Street carries roughly 79 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 128 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 43 Street is pests, at 170 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (116 violations) and bed bugs (96). 423 residential buildings on 43 Street hold the 2,007 homes on file, 137 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 57, with parking at 22. 43 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Infrastructure ranks 54 on the same scale, with housing at 26. Food nearby ranks 75 and transit 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 43 Street ranks 88 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 43 Street is traffic safety, at 77.
31% of the 2,007 homes recorded on 43 Street are rent-stabilized, 588 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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