59 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does 59 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 59 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (78) and tree cover (95). Housing (48) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 59 Street, with 355 reports. Across every category, 1,173 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (172 reports) and residential noise (63). The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 59 Street carries roughly 54 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 59 Street carries 34 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 59 Street, 198 violations of it. Pests follows at 153 violations, then doors at 22. 759 residential buildings on 59 Street hold the 2,176 homes on file, 298 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on 59 Street have injured 54 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 59 Street ranks 78 on cleanliness and 52 on parking. A 52 on parking places 59 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 69 and infrastructure at 63 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 59 Street ranks 87 on food nearby and 73 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. 59 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 59 Street is quietness, at 78.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 2,176 homes on file, 109 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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59 Street runs through Borough Park, Mapleton and Sunset Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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