Ashford Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Ashford Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 64, 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 Ashford Street in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (62) and tree cover (89). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Ashford Street, with 551 reports. Across every category, 1,104 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 120 reports, and blocked driveway with 55. Reports on Ashford Street span 66 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Ashford Street carries roughly 135 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 59 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Ashford Street, 69 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 30 violations, then doors at 24. The housing file lists 391 residential buildings on Ashford Street holding 819 homes, with 52 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
NYPD records 104 people injured in crashes on Ashford Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 24, with traffic safety at 3. A 3 on traffic safety places Ashford Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 17 and parking at 4 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 66 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Ashford Street, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 819 homes on file, 80 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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Ashford Street runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York and Cypress Hills, 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).