79 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 79 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against numbered streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 79 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (78) and tree cover (94). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 79 Street, with 941 reports, and parking ranks 8 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,590 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 59% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 216 reports, then residential noise at 100. The file runs across 81 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 79 Street carries roughly 80 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 17 Class C violations on 79 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 79 violations on file. Pests follows at 62 violations. The housing file lists 856 residential buildings on 79 Street holding 1,977 homes, with 171 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 79 Street have injured 32 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 79 Street ranks 69 on cleanliness and 45 on quietness. That 45 on quietness puts 79 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 65 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 54. Against every street in the city, 79 Street ranks 65 on food nearby and 51 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. 79 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 1,977 homes on file, 193 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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