55 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 55 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 68, 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 55 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and tree cover (95). Housing (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 55 Street, with 187 reports. Across every category, 1,128 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 177 reports, then heat and hot water at 55. Reports on 55 Street span 83 distinct 311 categories. About 53 reports per 100 homes sit on 55 Street, counting every category.
55 Street carries 103 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 142 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 130 violations, then doors at 67. 730 residential buildings on 55 Street hold the 2,136 homes on file, 214 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 55 Street holds about 2.9 homes.
NYPD records 48 people injured in crashes on 55 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 55 Street ranks 83 on cleanliness and 52 on infrastructure. A 52 on infrastructure places 55 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 76 and parking at 60. Against every street in the city, 55 Street ranks 72 on food nearby and 64 on transit. 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 the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 2,136 homes on file, 211 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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55 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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