96 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does 96 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 78, 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 96 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and transit (81). Parking (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 96 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 139 of them, and parking ranks 17 among numbered streets. Across every category, 382 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 93 reports, and residential noise with 32. Reports on 96 Street span 44 distinct 311 categories. About 65 reports per 100 homes sit on 96 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 44 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 96 Street is doors, at 19 violations. Structure accounts for 10 more. The housing file lists 70 residential buildings on 96 Street holding 584 homes, with 17 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 8.3 homes to a building.
Among numbered streets, 96 Street ranks 97 on traffic safety and 39 on housing. A 39 on housing places 96 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 85 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 68. Against every street in the city, 96 Street ranks 80 on food nearby and 55 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
The housing file puts 52% of the 584 homes on 96 Street in rent stabilization, 302 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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96 Street runs through Bay Ridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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