Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 33, 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 Cortelyou Road in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (61) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Cortelyou Road. Since 2021, reported crashes on Cortelyou Road have injured 203 people, and traffic safety ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 474 of them. Across every category, 2,162 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 226 reports, then residential noise at 176. The file runs across 95 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,311 homes on file, that is about 165 reports per 100 homes.
Cortelyou Road carries 323 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 25 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cortelyou Road is pests, at 163 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (134 violations) and doors (91). City housing records put 1,311 homes in 212 residential buildings on Cortelyou Road, 40 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Cortelyou Road holds about 6.2 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 39, with housing at 16. That 16 on housing puts Cortelyou Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 39 and quietness at 34. Against every street in the city, Cortelyou Road ranks 59 on food nearby and 57 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Cortelyou Road, at 91. Cortelyou Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Cortelyou Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 61.
About 43% of the 1,311 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 560 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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Cortelyou Road runs through Kensington, Flatbush and East Flatbush & Erasmus, 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).