Bay 16 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Bay 16 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, 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 16 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and food nearby (78). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bay 16 Street, with 202 reports, and parking ranks 11 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Bay 16 Street holds 520 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 51 reports, then residential noise at 47. The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. About 79 reports per 100 homes sit on Bay 16 Street, counting every category.
Bay 16 Street carries 43 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bay 16 Street, 66 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (42 violations) and paint and lead (28). City housing records put 657 homes in 125 residential buildings on Bay 16 Street, 57 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bay 16 Street holds about 5.3 homes.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Bay 16 Street ranks 64 on infrastructure and 22 on housing. Bay 16 Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Quietness ranks 54 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 45. Against every street in the city, Bay 16 Street ranks 69 on tree cover and 55 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bay 16 Street, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
The housing file puts 13% of the 657 homes on Bay 16 Street in rent stabilization, 88 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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