Bay 46 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Bay 46 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Bay 46 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and transit (66). Tree cover (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Bay 46 Street, with 13 reports. Across every category, 45 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 11 reports. In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 46 Street. About 22 reports per 100 homes sit on Bay 46 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Bay 46 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 97 residential buildings on Bay 46 Street hold the 203 homes on file, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Bay 46 Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Bay 46 Street ranks 60 on parking and 14 on cleanliness. A 14 on cleanliness places Bay 46 Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 55 and traffic safety at 22. Food nearby ranks 35 and tree cover 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 66. Bay 46 Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bay 46 Street is infrastructure, at 94.
None of the 203 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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