Bay 20 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Bay 20 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 64, 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 20 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and food nearby (85). Parking (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bay 20 Street, with 84 reports, and parking ranks 18 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Bay 20 Street holds 183 reports, and illegal parking is 46% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 49 reports, and missed collection with 11. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 20 Street. Set against the 417 homes on file, that is about 44 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Bay 20 Street. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 25 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (25 violations) and pests (21). PLUTO counts 153 residential buildings and 417 homes on Bay 20 Street, with 44 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 91 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 40. That 40 on infrastructure puts Bay 20 Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 70 on the same scale, with housing at 60. The citywide frame puts transit at 56 and tree cover at 50. Bay 20 Street ranks 85 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Bay 20 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 92.
None of the 417 homes on file 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.
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Bay 20 Street runs through Bath Beach and Bensonhurst, 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).