Brown Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Brown Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Brown Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (87) and tree cover (77). Parking (5) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Brown Street name illegal parking than any other category, 257 of them, and parking ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 63% of the 407 reports on file here. Abandoned vehicle follows with 32 reports, and blocked driveway with 28. Reports on Brown Street span 43 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Brown Street carries roughly 82 reports per 100 of them.
Brown Street carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 498 homes in 305 residential buildings on Brown Street, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 83, with infrastructure at 17. That 17 on infrastructure puts Brown Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 82 on the same scale, with housing at 77. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 33. Brown Street ranks 77 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Brown Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Brown Street is quietness, at 87.
Of the 498 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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