Bay 38 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Bay 38 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 61, 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 38 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and transit (73). Housing (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bay 38 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 64 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 31% of the 209 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 24 reports, then blocked driveway at 20. In all, 33 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 38 Street. About 53 reports per 100 homes sit on Bay 38 Street, counting every category.
Bay 38 Street carries 14 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 22 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (21 violations) and bed bugs (18). The housing file lists 97 residential buildings on Bay 38 Street holding 398 homes, with 23 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.1 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 86 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 28. Bay 38 Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. Traffic safety ranks 78 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 77. Against every street in the city, Bay 38 Street ranks 67 on food nearby and 24 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 73. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Bay 38 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where Bay 38 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 97.
35% of the 398 homes recorded on Bay 38 Street are rent-stabilized, 139 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 38 Street runs through Gravesend, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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