Amber Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Amber Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Amber Street in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (88) and food nearby (42). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Amber Street, with 63 reports, and parking ranks 2 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 271 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 14 reports. Reports on Amber Street span 29 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Amber Street carries roughly 288 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on Amber Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 19 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 18 violations. 36 residential buildings on Amber Street hold the 94 homes on file, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 74, with housing at 4. A 4 on housing places Amber Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 30 and quietness at 15 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 36 and tree cover 24, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Amber Street ranks 42 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Amber Street is cleanliness, at 88.
None of the 94 homes on file 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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