Box Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Box Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Box Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and food nearby (73). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Box Street, with 79 reports. The whole 311 file on Box Street holds 317 reports, and illegal parking is 25% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (43 reports) and residential noise (22). Reports on Box Street span 35 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 112 homes on file, that is about 283 reports per 100 homes.
Box Street carries 3 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 10 residential buildings and 112 homes on Box Street, with 4 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Box Street holds about 11 homes.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 31, with parking at 3. Box Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. The card also puts housing at 15 and infrastructure at 9 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 58 and tree cover 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Box Street, at 73. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Box Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 89.
The housing file puts 35% of the 112 homes on Box Street in rent stabilization, 39 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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Box Street runs through Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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