Bay 43 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Bay 43 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Bay 43 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (49). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bay 43 Street, with 178 reports, and parking ranks 12 among quiet residential streets. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 37 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 15. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 43 Street. Divided by the homes on file, Bay 43 Street carries roughly 70 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Bay 43 Street. HPD's most-cited category on Bay 43 Street is bed bugs, at 17 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 11 violations. City housing records put 237 homes in 94 residential buildings on Bay 43 Street, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bay 43 Street holds about 2.5 homes.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Bay 43 Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Bay 43 Street ranks 77 on quietness and 26 on traffic safety. That 26 on traffic safety puts Bay 43 Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 66 and housing at 29. Transit ranks 48 and food nearby 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 49. Bay 43 Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bay 43 Street is cleanliness, at 98.
None of the 237 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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