46 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does 46 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 56, 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 46 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (66) and tree cover (94). Housing (44) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 46 Street, with 213 reports. Across every category, 909 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 103 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 70. In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on 46 Street. Set against the 1,797 homes on file, that is about 51 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 28 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 143 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 133 more, and paint and lead for 44. The housing file lists 538 residential buildings on 46 Street holding 1,797 homes, with 214 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 56 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 46 Street ranks 62 on parking and 47 on cleanliness. 46 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts traffic safety at 56 and infrastructure at 49 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 46 Street ranks 79 on food nearby and 61 on transit. 46 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.
Quietness is where 46 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 62.
About 14% of the 1,797 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 259 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
- 43 Street, Brooklyn
- 44 Street, Brooklyn
- 45 Street, Brooklyn
- 47 Street, Brooklyn
- 48 Street, Brooklyn
- 49 Street, Brooklyn
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).