Diamond Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Diamond Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, 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 Diamond Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and food nearby (86). Housing (54) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Diamond Street, with 27 reports. Across every category, 141 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (26 reports) and water system (23). Reports on Diamond Street span 49 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Diamond Street carries roughly 25 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 7 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 28 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (26 violations) and paint and lead (11). 136 residential buildings on Diamond Street hold the 574 homes on file, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Diamond Street holds about 4.2 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 84 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 60. That 60 on cleanliness puts Diamond Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 72 on the same scale, with quietness at 70. Transit ranks 66 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Diamond Street, at 86. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Diamond Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 574 homes on file, 98 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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Diamond Street runs through Greenpoint, 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).