Bayard Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Bayard Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Bayard Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and food nearby (87). Cleanliness (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on Bayard Street, with 28 reports, and cleanliness ranks 25 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Bayard Street holds 115 reports, and encampment is 24% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 24 reports, and illegal parking with 19. The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Bayard Street carries roughly 30 reports per 100 of them.
Bayard Street carries 2 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. City housing records put 386 homes in 38 residential buildings on Bayard Street, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 10 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Bayard Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 36. Bayard Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 56 and traffic safety at 38 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Bayard Street ranks 60 on tree cover and 58 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 73.
28% of the 386 homes recorded on Bayard Street are rent-stabilized, 108 homes in all.
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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