47 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 47 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 57, 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 47 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (73) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 47 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 189 of them. The whole 311 file on 47 Street holds 1,104 reports, and illegal parking is 17% of it. Residential noise follows with 155 reports, and blocked driveway with 139. Reports on 47 Street span 73 distinct 311 categories. About 58 reports per 100 homes sit on 47 Street, counting every category.
47 Street carries 56 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. HPD's most-cited category on 47 Street is pests, at 173 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 156 more, and paint and lead for 63. PLUTO counts 564 residential buildings and 1,896 homes on 47 Street, with 184 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.4 homes each.
Reported crashes on 47 Street have injured 65 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 47 Street ranks 62 on quietness and 40 on housing. A 40 on housing places 47 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 59 and traffic safety at 54 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 47 Street ranks 80 on food nearby and 60 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 47 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 47 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
About 14% of the 1,896 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.
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