71 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 71 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 71 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (87) and tree cover (92). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 71 Street, with 1,631 reports, and parking ranks 1 among numbered streets. Across every category, 2,284 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 71% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (156 reports) and non-emergency police matter (101). Reports on 71 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,798 homes on file, that is about 127 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 16 Class C violations on 71 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 71 Street, 104 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (83 violations) and paint and lead (27). The housing file lists 760 residential buildings on 71 Street holding 1,798 homes, with 186 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 47 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 71 Street ranks 77 on infrastructure and 26 on cleanliness. That 26 on cleanliness puts 71 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 55 and housing at 53. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 77 and transit at 54. 71 Street ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 71 Street is quietness, at 77.
About 4% of the 1,798 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 73 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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