Boerum Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Boerum Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, 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 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (79) and food nearby (86). Traffic safety (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Boerum Street. 33 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 38 among built-up residential streets. Residential noise draws more reports than anything else here, 86 of them. Across every category, 446 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (81 reports) and water system (27). Reports on Boerum Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,681 homes on file, that is about 27 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 51 Class C violations on Boerum Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 31 violations on file. Pests accounts for 20 more, and bed bugs for 12. PLUTO counts 50 residential buildings and 1,681 homes on Boerum Street, with 27 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Boerum Street holds about 34 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 70 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 52. That 52 on housing puts Boerum Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 66 and quietness at 63 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 83 and tree cover 70, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Boerum Street ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
About 3% of the 1,681 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 46 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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Boerum Street runs through East Williamsburg, 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).