Catherine Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Catherine Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Catherine Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (59) and food nearby (88). Tree cover (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Catherine Street, with 20 reports. Across every category, 33 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 61% of them name illegal parking. In all, 8 distinct 311 categories are represented on Catherine Street. Set against the 28 homes on file, that is about 118 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Catherine Street. City housing records put 28 homes in 9 residential buildings on Catherine Street, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
Among quiet residential streets, Catherine Street ranks 56 on quietness and 14 on parking. A 14 on parking places Catherine Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Housing ranks 42 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 28. The citywide frame puts transit at 71 and tree cover at 9. Catherine Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Catherine Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 28 on Catherine Street.
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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