Ainslie Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Ainslie Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, 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 Ainslie Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (56) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Ainslie Street, with 98 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 356 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (50 reports) and graffiti (39). In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ainslie Street. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on Ainslie Street, counting every category.
Ainslie Street carries 9 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ainslie Street is bed bugs, at 30 violations. Pests follows at 21 violations. 148 residential buildings on Ainslie Street hold the 554 homes on file, 72 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Ainslie Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Ainslie Street ranks 40 on traffic safety and 22 on infrastructure. That 22 on infrastructure puts Ainslie Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 37 on the same scale, with quietness at 27. Against every street in the city, Ainslie Street ranks 89 on transit and 73 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. Ainslie Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 56.
About 13% of the 554 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 73 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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