Bay 14 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Bay 14 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.

Calm 74, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 61, 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 Bay 14 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (87) and food nearby (72). Parking (25) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bay 14 Street, with 48 reports, and parking ranks 25 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 133 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 15 reports, then overgrown tree and branches at 14. The file runs across 38 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Bay 14 Street carries roughly 33 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Bay 14 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Bay 14 Street is bed bugs, at 14 violations. PLUTO counts 196 residential buildings and 398 homes on Bay 14 Street, with 43 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2 homes to a building.

Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 87, with cleanliness at 58. A 58 on cleanliness places Bay 14 Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 78 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 73. Against every street in the city, Bay 14 Street ranks 69 on tree cover and 52 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.

Of the 398 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Brooklyn

Bay 14 Street runs through Bath Beach, 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).

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