Butler Place, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Butler Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Butler Place in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and transit (83). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Helicopter noise is the most-filed complaint on Butler Place, with 324 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 32 reports, then heat and hot water at 25. The file runs across 21 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 198 homes on file, that is about 81 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 5 residential buildings on Butler Place holding 198 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 40 homes each.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Butler Place have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 96 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 23. A 23 on infrastructure places Butler Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 56 and housing at 43. Food nearby ranks 81 and tree cover 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Butler Place, at 83. Butler Place is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Butler Place ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 98.
9% of the 198 homes recorded on Butler Place are rent-stabilized, 18 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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Butler Place runs through Prospect Heights, 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).