Bay 8 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Bay 8 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Bay 8 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (76) and tree cover (65). Infrastructure (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Bay 8 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Bay 8 Street have injured 26 people, and traffic safety ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 72 reports. Across every category, 185 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Water system is the next most-filed at 29 reports, then blocked driveway at 19. Reports on Bay 8 Street span 41 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 355 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Bay 8 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Bay 8 Street is bed bugs, at 17 violations. Pests accounts for 11 more. 159 residential buildings on Bay 8 Street hold the 355 homes on file, 42 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bay 8 Street holds about 2.2 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 75, with traffic safety at 7. That 7 on traffic safety puts Bay 8 Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 61 and parking at 47. The citywide frame puts transit at 34 and food nearby at 31. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bay 8 Street is cleanliness, at 76.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 355 on Bay 8 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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