Forrest Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Forrest Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Forrest Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and food nearby (90). Housing (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Forrest Street name residential noise than any other category, 23 of them. The whole 311 file on Forrest Street holds 62 reports, and residential noise is 37% of it. Reports on Forrest Street span 29 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Forrest Street carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 17 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 17 per 100 homes on file. 16 residential buildings on Forrest Street hold the 103 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.4 homes each.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Forrest Street have injured no one.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 83, with quietness at 21. A 21 on quietness places Forrest Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 78 and cleanliness at 24. Against every street in the city, Forrest Street ranks 72 on transit and 47 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
About 59% of the 103 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 61 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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