Bainbridge Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Bainbridge Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 Bainbridge Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and tree cover (89). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Bainbridge Street, with 284 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,256 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 156 reports, and noise with 69. The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Bainbridge Street carries roughly 88 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Bainbridge Street carries 76 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bainbridge Street, 123 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (104 violations) and doors (39). The housing file lists 472 residential buildings on Bainbridge Street holding 1,424 homes, with 167 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3 homes each.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 61, with quietness at 7. A 7 on quietness places Bainbridge Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 36 and housing at 23. The citywide frame puts transit at 83 and food nearby at 75. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. Bainbridge Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is where Bainbridge Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 1,424 homes on file, 164 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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Bainbridge Street runs through Bed-Stuy and Ocean Hill, 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).