Franklin Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Franklin Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, 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 Franklin Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and food nearby (89). Traffic safety (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Franklin Street. Reported crashes here have injured 59 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 22 among built-up residential streets. Commercial noise draws more reports than anything else here, 107 of them. The whole 311 file on Franklin Street holds 742 reports, and commercial noise is 14% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (105 reports) and residential noise (91). The file runs across 88 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 803 homes on file, that is about 92 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Franklin Street carries 54 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Franklin Street, 59 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (45 violations) and paint and lead (42). PLUTO counts 129 residential buildings and 803 homes on Franklin Street, with 64 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Franklin Street holds about 6.2 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 59 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 28. A 28 on cleanliness places Franklin Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 48 and quietness at 47 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 76 and transit 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Franklin Street, at 89. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Franklin Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Franklin Street is parking, at 67.
The housing file puts 24% of the 803 homes on Franklin Street in rent stabilization, 185 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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