Congress Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Congress Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, 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 Congress Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (86) and food nearby (93). Parking (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Congress Street name illegal parking than any other category, 103 of them, and parking ranks 20 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Congress Street holds 143 reports, and illegal parking is 72% of it. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 26 reports. In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on Congress Street. The 311 file works out to about 40 reports for every 100 homes on Congress Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Congress Street. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Congress Street, 12 violations of it. City housing records put 359 homes in 65 residential buildings on Congress Street, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.5 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 86 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 42. That 42 on cleanliness puts Congress Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 75 and housing at 70. Transit ranks 84 and tree cover 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Congress Street ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Congress Street is quietness, at 86.
The housing file puts 5% of the 359 homes on Congress Street in rent stabilization, 18 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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Congress Street runs through Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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