Bay 26 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Bay 26 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, 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 26 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (84) and food nearby (90). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bay 26 Street, with 74 reports, and parking ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 300 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (47 reports) and water system (12). The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 422 homes on file, that is about 71 reports per 100 homes.
Bay 26 Street carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Bay 26 Street, 29 violations of it. Pests follows at 16 violations. 87 residential buildings on Bay 26 Street hold the 422 homes on file, 43 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bay 26 Street holds about 4.9 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 63 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 50. A 50 on housing places Bay 26 Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 56 and quietness at 53. The citywide frame puts transit at 78 and tree cover at 48. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bay 26 Street, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bay 26 Street is traffic safety, at 80.
The housing file puts 26% of the 422 homes on Bay 26 Street in rent stabilization, 111 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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