Brighton 5 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Brighton 5 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 74, 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 Brighton 5 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and transit (87). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Brighton 5 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 69 of them, and cleanliness ranks 18 among built-up residential streets. Heat and hot water accounts for 20% of the 342 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 35 reports, and illegal parking with 27. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on Brighton 5 Street. Divided by the homes on file, Brighton 5 Street carries roughly 53 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 29 Class C violations on Brighton 5 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Brighton 5 Street is paint and lead, at 40 violations. Pests accounts for 35 more, and doors for 34. City housing records put 649 homes in 51 residential buildings on Brighton 5 Street, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Brighton 5 Street holds about 13 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Brighton 5 Street ranks 79 on traffic safety and 25 on parking. Brighton 5 Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 68 on the same scale, with housing at 32. Food nearby ranks 87 and tree cover 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. Brighton 5 Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
61% of the 649 homes recorded on Brighton 5 Street are rent-stabilized, 395 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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Brighton 5 Street runs through Brighton Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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