84 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 84 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 84 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (80) and tree cover (93). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 84 Street, with 573 reports, and parking ranks 16 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,470 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 270 reports, then residential noise at 128. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 84 Street carries roughly 66 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 84 Street carries 39 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 84 Street, 99 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (82 violations) and paint and lead (37). PLUTO counts 716 residential buildings and 2,241 homes on 84 Street, with 190 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 84 Street holds about 3.1 homes.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 65, with housing at 50. A 50 on housing places 84 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 65 and quietness at 57. Against every street in the city, 84 Street ranks 85 on food nearby and 64 on transit. 84 Street ranks 93 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 84 Street is traffic safety, at 80.
26% of the 2,241 homes recorded on 84 Street are rent-stabilized, 581 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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84 Street runs through Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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).