Canarsie Road, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Canarsie Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.

Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Canarsie Road in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (98) and food nearby (48). Transit (9) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Canarsie Road, with 25 reports. Across every category, 85 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then blocked driveway at 20. Reports on Canarsie Road span 29 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 157 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.

Canarsie Road carries 2 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. 84 residential buildings on Canarsie Road hold the 157 homes on file, 19 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 55, with traffic safety at 12. A 12 on traffic safety places Canarsie Road in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 49 and housing at 40 among quiet residential streets. Tree cover ranks 32 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Canarsie Road, at 48. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Canarsie Road is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Canarsie Road is cleanliness, at 98.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 157 on Canarsie Road.

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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