7 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does 7 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 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 7 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and tree cover (83). Cleanliness (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 7 Street, with 113 reports, and cleanliness ranks 27 among numbered streets. Across every category, 377 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Air quality is the next most-filed at 36 reports, then heat and hot water at 30. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on 7 Street. About 48 reports per 100 homes sit on 7 Street, counting every category.
7 Street carries 38 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 64 violations on file. Pests follows at 61 violations, then heat and hot water at 12. PLUTO counts 249 residential buildings and 793 homes on 7 Street, with 105 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 7 Street holds about 3.2 homes.
Reported crashes on 7 Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 79, with housing at 36. A 36 on housing places 7 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 71 and parking at 61 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 7 Street ranks 81 on transit and 80 on food nearby. 7 Street ranks 83 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 the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
About 8% of the 793 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 61 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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7 Street runs through Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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