Emerald Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Emerald Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Emerald Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and food nearby (42). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Emerald Street, with 223 reports, and parking ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Emerald Street holds 471 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. Residential noise follows with 32 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 30. The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 609 homes on file, that is about 77 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 18 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Emerald Street is pests, at 15 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 10 violations. PLUTO counts 24 residential buildings and 609 homes on Emerald Street, with 15 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 25 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Emerald Street ranks 94 on infrastructure and 44 on housing. That 44 on housing puts Emerald Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 90 and quietness at 69 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 38 and tree cover 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 42. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Emerald Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 82% of the 609 homes on file, 369 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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