97 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does 97 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against numbered streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 97 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and transit (75). Parking (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 97 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 35 of them, and parking ranks 21 among numbered streets. Across every category, 98 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 21 reports, and damaged tree with 12. Reports on 97 Street span 43 distinct 311 categories. About 48 reports per 100 homes sit on 97 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 97 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 78 residential buildings on 97 Street hold the 206 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
Among numbered streets, 97 Street ranks 79 on quietness and 59 on infrastructure. 97 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 79 and cleanliness at 60. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and tree cover at 50. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 97 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 206 on 97 Street.
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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97 Street runs through Bay Ridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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