44 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 44 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 44 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (89) and tree cover (92). Housing (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 44 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 293 of them. The whole 311 file on 44 Street holds 1,143 reports, and illegal parking is 26% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 92 reports, and heat and hot water with 60. In all, 79 distinct 311 categories are represented on 44 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 44 Street carries roughly 55 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 44 Street carries 109 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 44 Street, 167 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 129 violations, then paint and lead at 57. City housing records put 2,073 homes in 564 residential buildings on 44 Street, 206 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 44 Street holds about 3.7 homes.
Reported crashes on 44 Street have injured 53 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 69, with parking at 50. That 50 on parking puts 44 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 66 and traffic safety at 59 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 44 Street, at 92. 44 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 2,073 homes on file, 220 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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