48 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 48 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 54, 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 48 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (87) and tree cover (93). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 48 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 427 of them, and parking ranks 19 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,466 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (78 reports) and blocked driveway (76). In all, 75 distinct 311 categories are represented on 48 Street. About 94 reports per 100 homes sit on 48 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 48 Street carries 85 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 48 Street, 139 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 105 more, and paint and lead for 51. 542 residential buildings on 48 Street hold the 1,561 homes on file, 160 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 48 Street have injured 62 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 48 Street ranks 63 on cleanliness and 34 on housing. A 34 on housing places 48 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 48 and infrastructure at 38 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
About 13% of the 1,561 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 209 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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