Columbia Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Columbia Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Columbia Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and tree cover (86). Traffic safety (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Columbia Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Columbia Street have injured 71 people, and traffic safety ranks 35 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Columbia Street, with 128 reports. Across every category, 650 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (97 reports) and heat and hot water (96). Reports on Columbia Street span 87 distinct 311 categories. About 28 reports per 100 homes sit on Columbia Street, counting every category.
Columbia Street carries 48 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Columbia Street, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (36 violations) and bed bugs (21). City housing records put 2,338 homes in 116 residential buildings on Columbia Street, 31 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Columbia Street holds about 20 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 77, with cleanliness at 51. That 51 on cleanliness puts Columbia Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 77 on the same scale, with housing at 71. Food nearby ranks 65 and transit 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Columbia Street ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
About 2% of the 2,338 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 55 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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