Adelphi Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Adelphi Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Adelphi Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (66) and tree cover (85). Cleanliness (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Adelphi Street, with 92 reports, and cleanliness ranks 26 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 497 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to panhandling (42 reports) and residential noise (33). The file runs across 73 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 852 homes on file, that is about 58 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Adelphi Street carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Adelphi Street, 69 violations of it. Pests accounts for 57 more. The housing file lists 197 residential buildings on Adelphi Street holding 852 homes, with 105 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Adelphi Street ranks 46 on infrastructure and 35 on parking. Adelphi Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. Housing ranks 43 on the same scale, with quietness at 36. Against every street in the city, Adelphi Street ranks 84 on food nearby and 55 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Adelphi Street, at 85. Adelphi Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
26% of the 852 homes recorded on Adelphi Street are rent-stabilized, 215 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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Adelphi Street runs through Fort Greene, 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).