Bay 31 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Bay 31 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 58, 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 31 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (64) and transit (68). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bay 31 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 30 of them, and cleanliness ranks 10 among quiet residential streets. Blocked driveway accounts for 21% of the 145 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal parking (13 reports) and rodent (12). Reports on Bay 31 Street span 32 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Bay 31 Street carries roughly 49 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Bay 31 Street carries 7 Class C violations, 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 31 Street, 27 violations of it. Pests follows at 12 violations. City housing records put 297 homes in 87 residential buildings on Bay 31 Street, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Bay 31 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Bay 31 Street ranks 57 on infrastructure and 19 on housing. A 19 on housing places Bay 31 Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 39 and traffic safety at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and tree cover at 26. Bay 31 Street ranks 68 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 64.
10% of the 297 homes recorded on Bay 31 Street are rent-stabilized, 29 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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