Cove Lane, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Cove Lane in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 5, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Cove Lane in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and food nearby (12). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Reports on Cove Lane span 12 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 99 homes on file, that is about 36 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Cove Lane holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Cove Lane is pests, at 27 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 27 violations. PLUTO counts 3 residential buildings and 99 homes on Cove Lane, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Cove Lane holds about 33 homes.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Cove Lane since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Cove Lane ranks 88 on quietness and 12 on housing. That 12 on housing puts Cove Lane in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 85 and parking at 79. Tree cover ranks 5 and transit 1, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 12. Cove Lane is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Cove Lane ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 90.
Of the 99 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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