Ford Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Ford Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Ford Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (67). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Ford Street, with 156 reports, and parking ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 403 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (70 reports) and blocked driveway (64). The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. About 83 reports per 100 homes sit on Ford Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 244 residential buildings and 485 homes on Ford Street, with 10 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Ford Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 87 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 27. A 27 on infrastructure places Ford Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 63 and traffic safety at 47. Food nearby ranks 59 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Ford Street, at 67. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 20% of the 485 homes on file, 98 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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