Cumberland Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Cumberland Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Cumberland Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (70) and transit (97). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Cumberland Street name illegal parking than any other category, 356 of them, and parking ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 65% of the 544 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 33 reports, and water system with 18. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cumberland Street. Set against the 685 homes on file, that is about 79 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 15 Class C violations on Cumberland Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 52 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (41 violations) and doors (12). The housing file lists 138 residential buildings on Cumberland Street holding 685 homes, with 83 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5 homes each.
Reported crashes on Cumberland Street have injured 9 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 62, with housing at 40. Cumberland Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 55 and traffic safety at 53. Against every street in the city, Cumberland Street ranks 92 on food nearby and 70 on tree cover. Cumberland Street ranks 97 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Cumberland Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
11% of the 685 homes recorded on Cumberland Street are rent-stabilized, 73 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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Cumberland Street runs through Fort Greene, 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).