Bay 53 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Bay 53 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 53, 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 53 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and transit (50). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle leads the 311 file on Bay 53 Street, with 51 reports, and parking ranks 8 among quiet residential streets. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 24 reports. The file runs across 18 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 43 homes on file, that is about 93 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Bay 53 Street. 24 residential buildings on Bay 53 Street hold the 43 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 66, with infrastructure at 11. That 11 on infrastructure puts Bay 53 Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 55 and housing at 51. Food nearby ranks 42 and tree cover 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 50. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Bay 53 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where Bay 53 Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 91.
Of the 43 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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