Cornelia Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Cornelia Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 64, 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 Cornelia Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (45) and tree cover (77). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Cornelia Street name residential noise than any other category, 161 of them. The whole 311 file on Cornelia Street holds 715 reports, and residential noise is 23% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (116 reports) and water system (76). The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Cornelia Street carries roughly 84 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 51 Class C violations on Cornelia Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 100 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (76 violations) and paint and lead (38). 309 residential buildings on Cornelia Street hold the 852 homes on file, 133 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Cornelia Street holds about 2.8 homes.
Reported crashes on Cornelia Street have injured 14 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 41 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 15. Cornelia Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 22 and quietness at 18 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Cornelia Street ranks 62 on food nearby and 59 on transit. Cornelia Street ranks 77 on tree cover, 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 Cornelia Street is traffic safety, at 45.
About 2% of the 852 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 17 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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Cornelia Street runs through Bushwick, 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).