Downing Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Downing Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Downing Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (56) and food nearby (83). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Downing Street, with 88 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 160 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (52 reports) and street condition (18). In all, 42 distinct 311 categories are represented on Downing Street. About 71 reports per 100 homes sit on Downing Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on Downing Street, 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 bed bugs, with 14 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 10 violations. The housing file lists 42 residential buildings on Downing Street holding 226 homes, with 19 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.4 homes each.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Downing Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 27, with housing at 18. An 18 on housing places Downing Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 23 on the same scale, with parking at 23. Transit ranks 79 and tree cover 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Downing Street ranks 83 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Downing Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Downing Street is quietness, at 56.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 226 homes on file, 10 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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