Court Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does Court Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Court Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and food nearby (93). Traffic safety (42) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Court Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Court Street have injured 116 people, and traffic safety ranks 42 among built-up residential streets. Divided by the homes on file, Court Street carries roughly 84 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Court Street carries 62 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. 283 residential buildings on Court Street hold the 1,498 homes on file, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.3 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 80, with cleanliness at 54. Court Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 75 on the same scale, with parking at 71. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 90 and transit at 79. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Court Street, at 93. Court Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Court Street is infrastructure, at 81.
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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Court Street runs through Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights, 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).