Barbey Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Barbey Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 24, 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 Barbey Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (48) and tree cover (91). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Barbey Street name illegal parking than any other category, 308 of them, and parking ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 803 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 60 reports, and residential noise with 48. Reports on Barbey Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 773 homes on file, that is about 104 reports per 100 homes.
Barbey Street carries 91 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Barbey Street, 52 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 19 violations, then plumbing at 13. The housing file lists 363 residential buildings on Barbey Street holding 773 homes, with 50 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 29 people injured in crashes on Barbey Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 38, with housing at 14. That 14 on housing puts Barbey Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 22 and traffic safety at 17. Transit ranks 66 and food nearby 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Barbey Street, at 91. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Barbey Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 48.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 773 on Barbey Street.
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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