63 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 63 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.

Calm 55, 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 63 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (80) and tree cover (83). Parking (13) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 63 Street, with 718 reports, and parking ranks 13 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,260 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 57% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (260 reports) and residential noise (65). Reports on 63 Street span 70 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 69 reports for every 100 homes on 63 Street.

The HPD file on 63 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 63 Street, 102 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (81 violations) and paint and lead (36). City housing records put 1,821 homes in 526 residential buildings on 63 Street, 184 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.5 homes each.

NYPD records 59 people injured in crashes on 63 Street since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 62 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 44. 63 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 48 and infrastructure at 46. Against every street in the city, 63 Street ranks 78 on food nearby and 74 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 63 Street, at 83. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 63 Street is scored inside.

Quietness is where 63 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 80.

14% of the 1,821 homes recorded on 63 Street are rent-stabilized, 250 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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