98 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 98 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against numbered streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 98 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and transit (67). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 98 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 31 of them, and parking ranks 1 among numbered streets. Across every category, 43 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 72% of them name illegal parking. The file runs across 13 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 32 homes on file, that is about 134 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 98 Street. 32 residential buildings on 98 Street hold the 32 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 98 Street ranks 97 on traffic safety and 42 on quietness. 98 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. The card also puts housing at 91 and cleanliness at 89 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 53 and tree cover 4, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 67. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 98 Street is infrastructure, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 32 on 98 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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