50 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does 50 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 58, 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 50 Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (81) and tree cover (94). Housing (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 50 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 199 of them. Across every category, 1,312 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (185 reports) and heat and hot water (140). The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 50 Street carries roughly 62 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 50 Street carries 144 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 50 Street, 163 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (97 violations) and paint and lead (70). City housing records put 2,111 homes in 637 residential buildings on 50 Street, 211 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 50 Street have injured 76 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 69 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 47. A 47 on cleanliness places 50 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 51 and traffic safety at 50. Against every street in the city, 50 Street ranks 79 on food nearby and 62 on transit. 50 Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 50 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 2,111 homes on file, 452 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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