Downing Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Downing Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 27, 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 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (42) and food nearby (83); cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Downing Street, with 88 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among quiet residential streets. HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, quietness ranks 42 among quiet residential streets. Only about 4% of the 226 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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