Covert Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Covert Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, 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 Covert Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (51) and tree cover (79). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Covert Street, with 110 reports. The whole 311 file on Covert Street holds 481 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 63 reports, then blocked driveway at 32. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on Covert Street. Set against the 670 homes on file, that is about 72 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Covert Street carries 63 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Covert Street, 50 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 29 more, and paint and lead for 25. City housing records put 670 homes in 222 residential buildings on Covert Street, 73 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Covert Street holds about 3 homes.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 45, with housing at 25. A 25 on housing places Covert Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 44 and quietness at 38. The citywide frame puts transit at 77 and food nearby at 72. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Covert Street, at 79. Covert Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 51.
About 4% of the 670 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 27 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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Covert 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).