Beard Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Beard Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Beard Street in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (54) and food nearby (73). Transit (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Beard Street, with 17 reports. The whole 311 file on Beard Street holds 33 reports, and illegal parking is 52% of it. Reports on Beard Street span 29 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 30 homes on file, that is about 110 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Beard Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 11 residential buildings on Beard Street holding 30 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Among quiet residential streets, Beard Street ranks 47 on quietness and 19 on traffic safety. Beard Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts parking at 43 and cleanliness at 21 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Beard Street ranks 45 on tree cover and 13 on transit. Beard Street ranks 73 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is where Beard Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 54.
Of the 30 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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Beard Street runs through Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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