Broadway, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Broadway in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against major corridors. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Broadway in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (71) and transit (93). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Broadway, with 725 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among major corridors. Across every category, 3,242 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name commercial noise. Residential noise follows with 259 reports, and graffiti with 242. In all, 111 distinct 311 categories are represented on Broadway. Set against the 3,345 homes on file, that is about 97 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Broadway carries 181 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Broadway is pests, at 152 violations. Doors follows at 119 violations, then bed bugs at 84. PLUTO counts 381 residential buildings and 3,345 homes on Broadway, with 42 walk-ups and 24 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.8 homes each.
Since 2021, 704 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among major corridors, Broadway ranks 44 on infrastructure and 23 on quietness. Broadway sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on quietness. Measured against major corridors, housing sits at 35 and traffic safety at 34. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 82 and tree cover at 71. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Broadway, at 93. Broadway is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Parking is where Broadway ranks best against major corridors, at 71.
Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 3,345 homes on file, 844 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
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- Ellery Street, Brooklyn
Broadway runs through Bushwick, Williamsburg and East Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).