Devoe Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Devoe Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Devoe Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (78) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Devoe Street, with 79 reports, and cleanliness ranks 23 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 360 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 41 reports, and heat and hot water with 26. The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. About 43 reports per 100 homes sit on Devoe Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Devoe Street carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Devoe Street, 57 violations of it. Pests accounts for 48 more, and doors for 19. City housing records put 838 homes in 194 residential buildings on Devoe Street, 99 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Devoe Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 70, with parking at 38. That 38 on parking puts Devoe Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 69 and housing at 58. Transit ranks 85 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Devoe Street, at 93. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Devoe Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where Devoe Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 78.
13% of the 838 homes recorded on Devoe Street are rent-stabilized, 109 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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