Chestnut Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
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 (52) and tree cover (80); parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Chestnut Street, with 188 reports, and parking ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. HPD has cited 44 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 52 among built-up residential streets. None of the 406 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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