Dorset Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Dorset Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Dorset Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and food nearby (35). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 13 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Dorset Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 45 homes in 44 residential buildings on Dorset Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Dorset Street have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 78 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 41. That 41 on housing puts Dorset Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 68 and infrastructure at 59. The citywide frame puts transit at 24 and tree cover at 24. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 35. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Dorset Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Dorset Street is quietness, at 92.
Of the 45 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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