8 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does 8 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 8 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 8 Street, with 131 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among numbered streets. Across every category, 391 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 37 reports, and missed collection with 30. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 8 Street carries roughly 44 reports per 100 of them.
8 Street carries 15 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 50 violations on file. Pests accounts for 40 more. PLUTO counts 269 residential buildings and 887 homes on 8 Street, with 103 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 94, with infrastructure at 26. That 26 on infrastructure puts 8 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 50 and housing at 49. Against every street in the city, 8 Street ranks 88 on transit and 85 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 8 Street, at 93. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 8 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
About 8% of the 887 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 70 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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8 Street runs through Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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