Colonial Road, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.

Calm 47, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Colonial Road in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (90) and tree cover (88). Parking (4) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Colonial Road, with 426 reports, and parking ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 794 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 54% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (50 reports) and residential noise (42). The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 836 homes on file, that is about 95 reports per 100 homes.

Colonial Road carries 29 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 29 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (18 violations) and doors (15). 257 residential buildings on Colonial Road hold the 836 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Colonial Road holds about 3.3 homes.

Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 49, with infrastructure at 11. That 11 on infrastructure puts Colonial Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 45 and traffic safety at 38. The citywide frame puts transit at 49 and food nearby at 23. Colonial Road ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Colonial Road is scored inside.

Cleanliness is where Colonial Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 69.

27% of the 836 homes recorded on Colonial Road are rent-stabilized, 228 homes in all.

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