68 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 68 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 68 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and tree cover (90). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 68 Street, with 492 reports, and parking ranks 8 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,963 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 136 reports, then residential noise at 118. Reports on 68 Street span 77 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 68 Street carries roughly 87 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 99 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 68 Street, 158 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 123 violations, then doors at 70. 728 residential buildings on 68 Street hold the 2,248 homes on file, 235 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on 68 Street have injured 64 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 72 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 19. A 19 on cleanliness places 68 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 49 and housing at 33 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 81 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where 68 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 75.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 2,248 homes on file, 294 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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