49 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 49 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 55, 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 49 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (68) and tree cover (94). Cleanliness (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 49 Street, with 205 reports, and cleanliness ranks 32 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,250 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 142 reports, and blocked driveway with 135. The file runs across 79 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,189 homes on file, that is about 57 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 149 Class C violations on 49 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 49 Street is paint and lead, at 128 violations. Pests accounts for 119 more, and bed bugs for 101. City housing records put 2,189 homes in 547 residential buildings on 49 Street, 179 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 52 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 64 among numbered streets and housing ranks 33. That 33 on housing puts 49 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 60 and infrastructure at 54. Against every street in the city, 49 Street ranks 79 on food nearby and 61 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 49 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 49 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 2,189 homes on file, 464 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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