Bradford Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Bradford Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, 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 Bradford Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (61) and tree cover (88). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bradford Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 96 of them. Across every category, 961 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway follows with 91 reports, and residential noise with 74. Reports on Bradford Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Bradford Street carries roughly 98 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Bradford Street carries 177 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 18 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bradford Street is pests, at 144 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (103 violations) and paint and lead (51). 330 residential buildings on Bradford Street hold the 980 homes on file, 151 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 47 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Bradford Street ranks 50 on infrastructure and 13 on traffic safety. A 13 on traffic safety places Bradford Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 37 on the same scale, with parking at 36. Against every street in the city, Bradford Street ranks 77 on transit and 51 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Bradford Street, at 88. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Bradford Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Bradford Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 61.
1% of the 980 homes recorded on Bradford Street are rent-stabilized, 9 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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