Baltic Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Baltic Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Baltic Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and food nearby (92). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Baltic Street, with 246 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 940 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 232 reports, then residential noise at 89. In all, 75 distinct 311 categories are represented on Baltic Street. Set against the 924 homes on file, that is about 102 reports per 100 homes.
Baltic Street carries 16 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 60 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 46 violations, then paint and lead at 21. 180 residential buildings on Baltic Street hold the 924 homes on file, 93 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Baltic Street holds about 5.1 homes.
Reported crashes on Baltic Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Baltic Street ranks 42 on housing and 13 on infrastructure. That 13 on infrastructure puts Baltic Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 20 and cleanliness at 19 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 90 and tree cover 86, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Baltic Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
The housing file puts 19% of the 924 homes on Baltic Street in rent stabilization, 171 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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