Cedar Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Cedar Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Cedar Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (74) and transit (91). Infrastructure (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Cedar Street, with 48 reports. Across every category, 115 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name blocked driveway. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 30 reports, then water system at 14. Reports on Cedar Street span 39 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Cedar Street carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Cedar Street. The housing file lists 46 residential buildings on Cedar Street holding 319 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.9 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 70, with cleanliness at 40. Cedar Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 58 on the same scale, with parking at 42. Food nearby ranks 84 and tree cover 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Cedar Street, at 91. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Cedar Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
1% of the 319 homes recorded on Cedar Street are rent-stabilized, 3 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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Cedar Street runs through Bushwick and Midwood, 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).