52 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 52 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 53, 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 52 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (72) and tree cover (95). Housing (40) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 52 Street, with 224 reports. Across every category, 1,122 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (152 reports) and residential noise (144). The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,066 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 66 Class C violations on 52 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 52 Street, 117 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 112 more, and paint and lead for 45. The housing file lists 671 residential buildings on 52 Street holding 2,066 homes, with 223 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 74 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 58, with cleanliness at 44. That 44 on cleanliness puts 52 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 49 and infrastructure at 47. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 85 and transit at 56. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 52 Street, at 95. 52 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is where 52 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 72.
About 8% of the 2,066 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 161 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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