Carroll Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Carroll Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Carroll Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (80) and tree cover (97). Housing (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Carroll Street, with 568 reports. Across every category, 4,113 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 353 reports, and heat and hot water with 323. In all, 91 distinct 311 categories are represented on Carroll Street. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on Carroll Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 509 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 437 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 334 violations, then bed bugs at 177. PLUTO counts 921 residential buildings and 6,399 homes on Carroll Street, with 288 walk-ups and 21 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.9 homes each.
NYPD records 30 people injured in crashes on Carroll Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 54, with cleanliness at 27. A 27 on cleanliness places Carroll Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 45 and quietness at 35 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Carroll Street ranks 83 on food nearby and 72 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Carroll Street, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Carroll Street is traffic safety, at 80.
About 19% of the 6,399 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,198 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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