Fenimore Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Fenimore Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Fenimore Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (54) and food nearby (83). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Fenimore Street, with 350 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,186 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (190 reports) and residential noise (176). Reports on Fenimore Street span 68 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Fenimore Street carries roughly 142 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Fenimore Street carries 143 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 17 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Fenimore Street, 90 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 44 more, and doors for 31. PLUTO counts 235 residential buildings and 837 homes on Fenimore Street, with 42 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.6 homes each.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Fenimore Street ranks 27 on parking and 8 on cleanliness. An 8 on cleanliness places Fenimore Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 24 and housing at 10 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Fenimore Street ranks 80 on transit and 73 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. Fenimore Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Fenimore Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 54.
About 39% of the 837 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 329 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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Fenimore Street runs through Prospect Lefferts Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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