5 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 5 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 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 5 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (86) and food nearby (86). Infrastructure (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 5 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 74 of them. The whole 311 file on 5 Street holds 347 reports, and illegal parking is 21% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (22 reports) and damaged tree (20). Reports on 5 Street span 50 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 624 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 26 Class C violations on 5 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 5 Street is bed bugs, at 51 violations. Pests accounts for 36 more. City housing records put 624 homes in 207 residential buildings on 5 Street, 84 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3 homes each.
Reported crashes on 5 Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 52 among numbered streets and housing ranks 38. That 38 on housing puts 5 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 50 and quietness at 46. Against every street in the city, 5 Street ranks 82 on tree cover and 64 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. 5 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 624 homes on file, 23 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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