Dean Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Dean Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Dean Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (44) and tree cover (99). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Dean Street name illegal parking than any other category, 2,509 of them, and parking ranks 23 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 72% of the 3,481 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 407 reports, and heat and hot water with 280. The file runs across 108 distinct 311 categories in all. About 68 reports per 100 homes sit on Dean Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 210 Class C violations on Dean Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Dean Street is pests, at 324 violations. Bed bugs follows at 236 violations, then paint and lead at 168. City housing records put 5,101 homes in 866 residential buildings on Dean Street, 372 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.9 homes each.
NYPD records 155 people injured in crashes on Dean Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Dean Street ranks 39 on quietness and 24 on traffic safety. A 24 on traffic safety places Dean Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 35 and cleanliness at 33. Transit ranks 88 and food nearby 87, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Dean Street, at 99. Dean Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Dean Street is infrastructure, at 43.
14% of the 5,101 homes recorded on Dean Street are rent-stabilized, 647 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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