65 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does 65 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 65 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (85) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 65 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 65 Street have injured 427 people, and traffic safety ranks 6 among numbered streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 65 Street, with 674 reports. Across every category, 1,917 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (188 reports) and residential noise (93). The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. About 69 reports per 100 homes sit on 65 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 146 Class C violations on 65 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 125 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 83 violations, then bed bugs at 82. City housing records put 2,768 homes in 527 residential buildings on 65 Street, 142 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.3 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 79 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 22. That 22 on cleanliness puts 65 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 43 on the same scale, with parking at 28. Food nearby ranks 79 and transit 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 65 Street, at 91. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 65 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 65 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 85.
16% of the 2,768 homes recorded on 65 Street are rent-stabilized, 448 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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