Brighton 8 Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Brighton 8 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Brighton 8 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (55) and food nearby (75). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Brighton 8 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 38 of them. Across every category, 666 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 6% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (29 reports) and residential noise (25). Reports on Brighton 8 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 273 reports for every 100 homes on Brighton 8 Street.
The HPD file on Brighton 8 Street carries 133 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 55 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Brighton 8 Street, 30 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 23 violations, then bed bugs at 17. The housing file lists 73 residential buildings on Brighton 8 Street holding 244 homes, with 24 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Among quiet residential streets, Brighton 8 Street ranks 39 on traffic safety and 10 on parking. A 10 on parking places Brighton 8 Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 31 on the same scale, with quietness at 14. The citywide frame puts transit at 71 and tree cover at 23. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Brighton 8 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 55.
About 20% of the 244 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 50 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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