45 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 45 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 45 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (67) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 45 Street, with 227 reports. The whole 311 file on 45 Street holds 1,018 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (157 reports) and blocked driveway (86). In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on 45 Street. The 311 file works out to about 52 reports for every 100 homes on 45 Street.
45 Street carries 66 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 154 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 113 more, and paint and lead for 102. PLUTO counts 666 residential buildings and 1,974 homes on 45 Street, with 200 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 45 Street holds about 3 homes.
Since 2021, 52 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 62, with cleanliness at 37. 45 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts parking at 59 and housing at 41 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 45 Street ranks 72 on food nearby and 65 on transit. 45 Street ranks 94 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 45 Street is quietness, at 67.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 1,974 homes on file, 210 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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