Chauncey Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Chauncey Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Chauncey Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (49) and tree cover (90). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Chauncey Street name illegal parking than any other category, 306 of them, and cleanliness ranks 13 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 1,564 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (168 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (122). The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Chauncey Street carries roughly 91 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Chauncey Street carries 217 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Chauncey Street, 191 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (115 violations) and paint and lead (74). City housing records put 1,715 homes in 373 residential buildings on Chauncey Street, 198 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Chauncey Street holds about 4.6 homes.
Reported crashes on Chauncey Street have injured 24 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Chauncey Street ranks 27 on parking and 14 on housing. That 14 on housing puts Chauncey Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 26 and infrastructure at 18 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 80 and food nearby 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Chauncey Street, at 90. Chauncey Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Chauncey Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 49.
The housing file puts 6% of the 1,715 homes on Chauncey Street in rent stabilization, 95 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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Chauncey Street runs through Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Ocean Hill, 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).