Crown Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Crown Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 Crown Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (65) and tree cover (85). Housing (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Crown Street, with 372 reports. Across every category, 1,933 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (257 reports) and illegal parking (198). Reports on Crown Street span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 60 reports for every 100 homes on Crown Street.
Inspectors have written 345 Class C violations on Crown Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 279 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 266 violations, then doors at 124. City housing records put 3,226 homes in 358 residential buildings on Crown Street, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9 homes each.
Reported crashes on Crown Street have injured 40 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 60 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 37. Crown Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts traffic safety at 55 and quietness at 40 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 77 and food nearby 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Crown Street ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file puts 40% of the 3,226 homes on Crown Street in rent stabilization, 1,286 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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