Ashland Place, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Ashland Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Ashland Place in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (88) and transit (98). Traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Ashland Place. 52 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 14 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Ashland Place is led by illegal parking, with 116 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 38% of the 303 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 99 reports, and residential noise with 19. Reports on Ashland Place span 50 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,361 homes on file, that is about 22 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Ashland Place carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ashland Place is bed bugs, at 13 violations. City housing records put 1,361 homes in 29 residential buildings on Ashland Place, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 47 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 84, with parking at 47. A 47 on parking places Ashland Place in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 80 and infrastructure at 80. Against every street in the city, Ashland Place ranks 93 on food nearby and 40 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Ashland Place, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ashland Place is housing, at 88.
The housing file puts 30% of the 1,361 homes on Ashland Place in rent stabilization, 414 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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Ashland Place runs through Fort Greene, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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