Danforth Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Danforth Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Danforth Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (69) and transit (79). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Danforth Street, with 29 reports, and parking ranks 1 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 96 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (14 reports) and residential noise (14). Reports on Danforth Street span 20 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Danforth Street carries roughly 343 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Danforth Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 28 homes in 15 residential buildings on Danforth Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Danforth Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 52, with quietness at 2. A 2 on quietness places Danforth Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 41 and infrastructure at 15 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 71 and tree cover 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Danforth Street ranks 79 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Danforth Street is housing, at 69.
Of the 28 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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