Bay 23 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Bay 23 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bay 23 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (54) and food nearby (88). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bay 23 Street, with 236 reports, and parking ranks 4 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 362 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 65% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (61 reports) and residential noise (27). In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 23 Street. About 123 reports per 100 homes sit on Bay 23 Street, counting every category.
Bay 23 Street carries 3 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 29 violations on file. Pests accounts for 21 more. City housing records put 295 homes in 110 residential buildings on Bay 23 Street, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 53 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 20. A 20 on cleanliness places Bay 23 Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 34 and housing at 26. The citywide frame puts transit at 70 and tree cover at 48. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. Bay 23 Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Bay 23 Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 54.
13% of the 295 homes recorded on Bay 23 Street are rent-stabilized, 39 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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