Butler Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Butler Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, 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 Butler Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (72) and food nearby (91). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Butler Street name illegal parking than any other category, 159 of them, and parking ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 34% of the 472 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (68 reports) and commercial noise (43). In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on Butler Street. The 311 file works out to about 129 reports for every 100 homes on Butler Street.
Butler Street carries 3 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. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 49 violations on file. Pests follows at 31 violations, then heat and hot water at 12. PLUTO counts 107 residential buildings and 366 homes on Butler Street, with 65 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.4 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 41, with infrastructure at 8. Butler Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 32 on the same scale, with quietness at 20. Against every street in the city, Butler Street ranks 90 on transit and 73 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. Butler Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Butler Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 71.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 366 homes on file, 8 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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