70 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 70 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 70 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (78) and tree cover (89). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 70 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 665 of them, and parking ranks 6 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 46% of the 1,448 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (248 reports) and residential noise (217). The file runs across 73 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,598 homes on file, that is about 91 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 39 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 81 violations on file. Pests follows at 78 violations, then paint and lead at 60. 662 residential buildings on 70 Street hold the 1,598 homes on file, 151 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 61 among numbered streets and housing ranks 39. 70 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. Quietness ranks 55 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 52. Against every street in the city, 70 Street ranks 76 on food nearby and 55 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 70 Street, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 70 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file puts 7% of the 1,598 homes on 70 Street in rent stabilization, 113 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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