Bristol Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Bristol Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 61, 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 Bristol Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (49) and tree cover (79). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Bristol Street, with 155 reports. Across every category, 1,098 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 91 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 74. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 820 homes on file, that is about 134 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Bristol Street carries 190 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bristol Street is pests, at 171 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (81 violations) and bed bugs (71). 180 residential buildings on Bristol Street hold the 820 homes on file, 90 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Bristol Street have injured 36 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 48, with traffic safety at 13. A 13 on traffic safety places Bristol Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 48 on the same scale, with quietness at 13. Food nearby ranks 59 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bristol Street is infrastructure, at 49.
25% of the 820 homes recorded on Bristol Street are rent-stabilized, 204 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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