57 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 57 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 57 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (94). Cleanliness (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 57 Street, with 232 reports, and cleanliness ranks 37 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,057 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (225 reports) and building and use (35). Reports on 57 Street span 77 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 51 reports for every 100 homes on 57 Street.
Inspectors have written 24 Class C violations on 57 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 57 Street is bed bugs, at 145 violations. Pests follows at 140 violations, then doors at 30. The housing file lists 706 residential buildings on 57 Street holding 2,060 homes, with 211 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 37 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 81 among numbered streets and parking ranks 37. That 37 on parking puts 57 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 66 and housing at 55. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 88 and transit at 64. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 57 Street, at 94. 57 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is where 57 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 92.
The housing file puts 6% of the 2,060 homes on 57 Street in rent stabilization, 112 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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57 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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