Chestnut Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Chestnut Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, 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 Chestnut Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (44) and tree cover (80). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Chestnut Street, with 188 reports. The whole 311 file on Chestnut Street holds 682 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (122 reports) and dirty condition (82). In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on Chestnut Street. About 168 reports per 100 homes sit on Chestnut Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 38 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Chestnut Street is pests, at 69 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 55 more, and plumbing for 18. PLUTO counts 182 residential buildings and 406 homes on Chestnut Street, with 30 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Chestnut Street holds about 2.2 homes.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Chestnut Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Chestnut Street ranks 35 on traffic safety and 3 on parking. Chestnut Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 32 on the same scale, with housing at 17. Against every street in the city, Chestnut Street ranks 78 on transit and 59 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 44.
None of the 406 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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