Amity Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does Amity Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Amity Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and food nearby (91). Parking (51) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Amity Street name illegal parking than any other category, 72 of them, and parking ranks 51 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 84 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 86% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 12 reports. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Amity Street. About 24 reports per 100 homes sit on Amity Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Amity Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 11 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 10 more. 68 residential buildings on Amity Street hold the 349 homes on file, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.1 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 87 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 63. A 63 on housing places Amity Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 75 and infrastructure at 66. Transit ranks 80 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Amity Street ranks 91 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
The housing file puts 11% of the 349 homes on Amity Street in rent stabilization, 37 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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Amity Street runs through Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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