Degraw Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Degraw Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Degraw Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (90) and food nearby (87). Quietness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Helicopter noise is the most-filed complaint on Degraw Street, with 447 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 681 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 66% of them name helicopter noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (173 reports) and water system (30). Reports on Degraw Street span 66 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 897 homes on file, that is about 76 reports per 100 homes.
Degraw Street carries 14 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 272 residential buildings on Degraw Street holding 897 homes, with 131 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Degraw Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Degraw Street ranks 62 on cleanliness and 15 on infrastructure. Degraw Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 48 and parking at 33. Against every street in the city, Degraw Street ranks 86 on tree cover and 74 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Degraw Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Degraw Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 63.
About 11% of the 897 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 95 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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