61 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 61 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 61 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (56) and tree cover (89). Cleanliness (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 61 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 363 of them, and cleanliness ranks 24 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 61 Street holds 1,495 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 178 reports, and blocked driveway with 110. Reports on 61 Street span 82 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 61 Street carries roughly 85 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 166 Class C violations on 61 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 131 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 79 more, and doors for 49. 582 residential buildings on 61 Street hold the 1,757 homes on file, 145 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 61 Street holds about 3 homes.
Since 2021, 50 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 54 among numbered streets and parking ranks 26. A 26 on parking places 61 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 43 and housing at 28 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 80 and transit 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 61 Street ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where 61 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 56.
The housing file puts 20% of the 1,757 homes on 61 Street in rent stabilization, 352 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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