Crescent Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Crescent Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 68, 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 Crescent Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Crescent Street. Reported crashes here have injured 120 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 6 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 129 of them. Across every category, 710 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (98 reports) and heat and hot water (69). Reports on Crescent Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 967 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Crescent Street carries 49 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Crescent Street is pests, at 81 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (54 violations) and doors (26). PLUTO counts 388 residential buildings and 967 homes on Crescent Street, with 143 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 51 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 12. That 12 on infrastructure puts Crescent Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 41 and housing at 38 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 64 and food nearby 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Crescent Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Crescent Street is quietness, at 75.
The housing file puts 4% of the 967 homes on Crescent Street in rent stabilization, 37 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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