Berry Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Berry Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Berry Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (71) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Berry Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 160 of them, and cleanliness ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Berry Street holds 1,004 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 16% of it. Illegal parking follows with 150 reports, and graffiti with 97. Reports on Berry Street span 85 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 100 reports for every 100 homes on Berry Street.

Berry Street carries 13 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. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Berry Street, 42 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (40 violations) and paint and lead (14). City housing records put 1,001 homes in 97 residential buildings on Berry Street, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Berry Street holds about 10 homes.

Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 44 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 9. That 9 on quietness puts Berry Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 31 and infrastructure at 14 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Berry Street ranks 70 on transit and 70 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Berry Street, at 96. Berry Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Berry Street is housing, at 71.

About 42% of the 1,001 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 423 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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