Brightwater Court, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Brightwater Court in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 74, 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 Brightwater Court in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (90) and food nearby (85). Cleanliness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Brightwater Court name residential noise than any other category, 93 of them, and cleanliness ranks 15 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Brightwater Court holds 372 reports, and residential noise is 25% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 55 reports, and maintenance or facility with 37. In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on Brightwater Court. Set against the 774 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
Brightwater Court carries 54 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 53 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (44 violations) and doors (15). The housing file lists 21 residential buildings on Brightwater Court holding 774 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 37 homes each.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Brightwater Court ranks 65 on parking and 30 on housing. That 30 on housing puts Brightwater Court in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 36 and quietness at 30 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 81 and tree cover 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Brightwater Court ranks 85 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Brightwater Court is infrastructure, at 90.
The housing file puts 55% of the 774 homes on Brightwater Court in rent stabilization, 425 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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