Boerum Place, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Boerum Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, 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 Boerum Place in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and transit (97). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Boerum Place. Reported crashes here have injured 36 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 134 reports. Across every category, 228 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 59% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to noise (42 reports) and for hire vehicle complaint (28). The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 385 homes on file, that is about 59 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 15 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 13 residential buildings on Boerum Place holding 385 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 30 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 79 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 13. A 13 on parking places Boerum Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 51 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 37. Against every street in the city, Boerum Place ranks 96 on food nearby and 54 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. Boerum Place is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Boerum Place is cleanliness, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 385 homes on file, 59 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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