Drew Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Drew Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Drew Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (79) and tree cover (65). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Drew Street name residential noise than any other category, 212 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Drew Street holds 871 reports, and residential noise is 24% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (185 reports) and illegal parking (90). In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on Drew Street. About 101 reports per 100 homes sit on Drew Street, counting every category.
Drew Street carries 105 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 63 violations on file. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (34 violations) and paint and lead (33). PLUTO counts 145 residential buildings and 863 homes on Drew Street, with 17 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Drew Street have injured 28 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 71, with housing at 16. Drew Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Parking ranks 40 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 21. The citywide frame puts transit at 55 and food nearby at 53. Drew Street ranks 65 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
The housing file puts 67% of the 863 homes on Drew Street in rent stabilization, 580 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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