54 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 54 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 54 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (74) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (43) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 54 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 184 of them. The whole 311 file on 54 Street holds 896 reports, and illegal parking is 21% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 128 reports, then residential noise at 101. Reports on 54 Street span 78 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 45 reports for every 100 homes on 54 Street.
The HPD file on 54 Street carries 21 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 54 Street is bed bugs, at 106 violations. Pests follows at 97 violations, then windows at 11. 737 residential buildings on 54 Street hold the 1,979 homes on file, 202 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
NYPD records 54 people injured in crashes on 54 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 70 among numbered streets and parking ranks 58. That 58 on parking puts 54 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 65 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 62. Food nearby ranks 84 and transit 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 54 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 1,979 homes on file, 151 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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54 Street runs through Borough Park, Sunset Park and Sunset Park & Borough Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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