Amherst Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Amherst Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Amherst Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and tree cover (57). Food nearby (39) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Amherst Street, with 10 reports. The whole 311 file on Amherst Street holds 41 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on Amherst Street. Divided by the homes on file, Amherst Street carries roughly 27 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Amherst Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 102 residential buildings on Amherst Street holding 152 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Amherst Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 96 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 49. That 49 on quietness puts Amherst Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 93 on the same scale, with parking at 50. Against every street in the city, Amherst Street ranks 54 on transit and 39 on food nearby. Amherst Street ranks 57 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is where Amherst Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 152 on Amherst 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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Amherst Street runs through Sheepshead Bay, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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