89 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does 89 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 89 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and food nearby (93). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 89 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 147 of them, and parking ranks 11 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 89 Street holds 246 reports, and illegal parking is 60% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 33 reports, and residential noise with 30. Reports on 89 Street span 40 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 89 Street carries roughly 77 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 89 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 89 Street, 11 violations of it. City housing records put 321 homes in 146 residential buildings on 89 Street, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 89 Street holds about 2.2 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 86 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 30. A 30 on quietness places 89 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 76 and infrastructure at 65. Transit ranks 82 and tree cover 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 89 Street, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 89 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
None of the 321 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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89 Street runs through Bay Ridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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