83 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does 83 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 83 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (89) and tree cover (95). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 83 Street, with 3,189 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 9,872 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (717 reports) and blocked driveway (190). In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on 83 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 83 Street carries roughly 474 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 79 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 85 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (75 violations) and doors (46). PLUTO counts 728 residential buildings and 2,081 homes on 83 Street, with 224 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on 83 Street have injured 37 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 58, with parking at 11. That 11 on parking puts 83 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 53 and housing at 45. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 82 and transit at 57. 83 Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 83 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 83 Street is traffic safety, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 2,081 homes on file, 272 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
- 80 Street, Brooklyn
- 81 Street, Brooklyn
- 82 Street, Brooklyn
- 84 Street, Brooklyn
- 85 Street, Brooklyn
- 86 Street, Brooklyn
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).