Crystal Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Crystal Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Crystal Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (74) and transit (85). Quietness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Crystal Street name illegal parking than any other category, 23 of them. Across every category, 103 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 22 reports, then blocked driveway at 21. In all, 29 distinct 311 categories are represented on Crystal Street. About 55 reports per 100 homes sit on Crystal Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Crystal Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Crystal Street is pests, at 17 violations. The housing file lists 91 residential buildings on Crystal Street holding 187 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on Crystal Street have injured 6 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 55 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 24. Crystal Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. Traffic safety ranks 25 on the same scale, with housing at 25. Against every street in the city, Crystal Street ranks 57 on food nearby and 57 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Crystal Street, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Crystal Street is infrastructure, at 74.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 187 on Crystal Street.
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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