Adams Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Adams Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Adams Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and transit (98). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Adams Street name illegal parking than any other category, 932 of them, and parking ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 87% of the 1,070 reports on file here. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (150 reports) and for hire vehicle complaint (117). In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on Adams Street. About 80 reports per 100 homes sit on Adams Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Adams Street carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 3 residential buildings on Adams Street hold the 1,331 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Adams Street holds about 444 homes.
Since 2021, 67 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Adams Street ranks 80 on cleanliness and 11 on traffic safety. An 11 on traffic safety places Adams Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 77 and quietness at 75. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 91 and tree cover at 81. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Adams Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is where Adams Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 95.
Of the 1,331 homes on file, none 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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Adams Street runs through DUMBO, 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).