Cook Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Cook Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 Cook Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and transit (86). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Cook Street, with 64 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 144 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 16 reports, and noise with 12. The file runs across 43 distinct 311 categories in all. About 47 reports per 100 homes sit on Cook Street, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Cook Street. PLUTO counts 6 residential buildings and 305 homes on Cook Street, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Cook Street holds about 51 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Cook Street ranks 83 on housing and 32 on parking. Cook Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. Traffic safety ranks 62 on the same scale, with quietness at 39. Against every street in the city, Cook Street ranks 85 on food nearby and 24 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. Cook Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Cook Street is infrastructure, at 93.
About 60% of the 305 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 182 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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