Freeman Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Freeman Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, 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 Freeman Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (80) and food nearby (88). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Freeman Street, with 77 reports. Across every category, 391 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (76 reports) and blocked driveway (69). In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on Freeman Street. Divided by the homes on file, Freeman Street carries roughly 86 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Freeman Street carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Freeman Street is bed bugs, at 30 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 21 violations. 74 residential buildings on Freeman Street hold the 453 homes on file, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Freeman Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Freeman Street ranks 32 on traffic safety and 14 on quietness. Freeman Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Cleanliness ranks 30 on the same scale, with parking at 18. Transit ranks 73 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Freeman Street, at 88. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Freeman Street is scored inside.
Housing is where Freeman Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 49.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 453 homes on file, 67 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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