Bay 17 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Bay 17 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, 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 17 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and food nearby (83). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bay 17 Street, with 154 reports, and parking ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 255 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 60% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 50 reports, then blocked driveway at 33. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 325 homes on file, that is about 78 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Bay 17 Street carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bay 17 Street, 22 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 22 more, and paint and lead for 18. The housing file lists 82 residential buildings on Bay 17 Street holding 325 homes, with 41 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 74, with housing at 36. Bay 17 Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 43 and traffic safety at 41. Against every street in the city, Bay 17 Street ranks 67 on transit and 61 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bay 17 Street, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bay 17 Street is cleanliness, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 34% of the 325 homes on file, 110 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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