Douglass Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Douglass Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Douglass Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and food nearby (93). Parking (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Douglass Street, with 179 reports, and parking ranks 31 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Douglass Street holds 380 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. After that the file runs to helicopter noise (84 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (51). In all, 54 distinct 311 categories are represented on Douglass Street. About 55 reports per 100 homes sit on Douglass Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Douglass Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Douglass Street, 59 violations of it. Pests accounts for 34 more. The housing file lists 161 residential buildings on Douglass Street holding 691 homes, with 60 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Douglass Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Douglass Street ranks 66 on cleanliness and 34 on quietness. A 34 on quietness places Douglass Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 61 and infrastructure at 50 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 84 and tree cover 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Douglass Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Douglass Street is traffic safety, at 72.
The housing file puts 3% of the 691 homes on Douglass Street in rent stabilization, 14 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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Douglass Street runs through Carroll Gardens and Park Slope, 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).