Bergen Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Bergen Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bergen Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (39) and tree cover (99). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bergen Street, with 2,039 reports, and parking ranks 12 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 5,264 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 579 reports, and residential noise with 491. In all, 106 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bergen Street. The 311 file works out to about 111 reports for every 100 homes on Bergen Street.
The HPD file on Bergen Street carries 507 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bergen Street, 496 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (273 violations) and bed bugs (265). The housing file lists 928 residential buildings on Bergen Street holding 4,736 homes, with 412 walk-ups and 18 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on Bergen Street have injured 170 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 36, with housing at 21. Bergen Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts cleanliness at 26 and traffic safety at 24 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Bergen Street ranks 89 on food nearby and 88 on transit. Bergen Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Bergen Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bergen Street is infrastructure, at 39.
About 19% of the 4,736 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 902 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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