Bay 22 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Bay 22 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, 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 22 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (88) and food nearby (91). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bay 22 Street, with 284 reports, and parking ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Bay 22 Street holds 391 reports, and illegal parking is 73% of it. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 30 reports. In all, 27 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 22 Street. Set against the 413 homes on file, that is about 95 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Bay 22 Street, 27 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (24 violations) and doors (12). 104 residential buildings on Bay 22 Street hold the 413 homes on file, 52 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 88 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 44. That 44 on housing puts Bay 22 Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 83 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 78. The citywide frame puts transit at 69 and tree cover at 42. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bay 22 Street, at 91. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Bay 22 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
About 9% of the 413 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 36 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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Bay 22 Street runs through Bath Beach and Bensonhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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