Bay 49 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Bay 49 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 35, 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 49 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (78) and transit (78). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bay 49 Street, with 72 reports, and parking ranks 9 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Bay 49 Street holds 172 reports, and illegal parking is 42% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 17 reports, and sidewalk condition with 11. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 49 Street. Divided by the homes on file, Bay 49 Street carries roughly 86 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Bay 49 Street, 14 violations of it. The housing file lists 79 residential buildings on Bay 49 Street holding 201 homes, with 25 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 33, with infrastructure at 17. Bay 49 Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 32 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 23. Against every street in the city, Bay 49 Street ranks 42 on tree cover and 35 on food nearby. Bay 49 Street ranks 78 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Bay 49 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bay 49 Street is quietness, at 78.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 201 on Bay 49 Street.
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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