Commercial Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Commercial Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 77, 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 Commercial Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and food nearby (77). Tree cover (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Commercial Street name illegal parking than any other category, 193 of them. The whole 311 file on Commercial Street holds 526 reports, and illegal parking is 37% of it. After that the file runs to animal in a park (142 reports) and maintenance or facility (89). In all, 58 distinct 311 categories are represented on Commercial Street. Divided by the homes on file, Commercial Street carries roughly 31 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 14 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 9 residential buildings and 1,721 homes on Commercial Street, with 1 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 191 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 89 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 32. That 32 on parking puts Commercial Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 86 and quietness at 62 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 63 and tree cover 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. Commercial Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Commercial Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 91.
29% of the 1,721 homes recorded on Commercial Street are rent-stabilized, 507 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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Commercial Street runs through Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).