Bay 50 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Bay 50 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 63, 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 50 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and transit (91). Housing (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bay 50 Street, with 13 reports. The whole 311 file on Bay 50 Street holds 90 reports, and illegal parking is 14% of it. In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay 50 Street. About 84 reports per 100 homes sit on Bay 50 Street, counting every category.
Bay 50 Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 38 residential buildings on Bay 50 Street hold the 107 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Bay 50 Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 61, with traffic safety at 21. That 21 on traffic safety puts Bay 50 Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 40 and cleanliness at 24 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 35 and tree cover 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bay 50 Street ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Bay 50 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Bay 50 Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 88.
Of the 107 homes on file, none 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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