Chester Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Chester Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, 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 Chester Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (67) and tree cover (78). Street crime (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Chester Street, with 80 reports. The whole 311 file on Chester Street holds 527 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 70 reports, and unsanitary condition with 45. Reports on Chester Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. About 51 reports per 100 homes sit on Chester Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 67 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 81 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 49 more, and bed bugs for 31. 159 residential buildings on Chester Street hold the 1,039 homes on file, 40 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Chester Street holds about 6.5 homes.
Since 2021, 29 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 64, with traffic safety at 27. A 27 on traffic safety places Chester Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 52 and housing at 29 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 66 and food nearby 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Chester Street, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Chester Street is infrastructure, at 67.
The housing file puts 20% of the 1,039 homes on Chester Street in rent stabilization, 190 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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