Bleecker Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Bleecker Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Bleecker Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (58) and food nearby (87). Street crime (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bleecker Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 139 of them. Across every category, 640 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 63 reports, then residential noise at 58. Reports on Bleecker Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on Bleecker Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 61 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 78 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 59 more, and paint and lead for 58. The housing file lists 216 residential buildings on Bleecker Street holding 1,076 homes, with 134 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5 homes each.
NYPD records 31 people injured in crashes on Bleecker Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 43, with traffic safety at 25. Bleecker Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 34 on the same scale, with housing at 29. The citywide frame puts transit at 76 and tree cover at 76. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bleecker Street, at 87. Bleecker Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bleecker Street is cleanliness, at 58.
6% of the 1,076 homes recorded on Bleecker Street are rent-stabilized, 64 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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Bleecker Street runs through Bushwick, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).