Front Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Front Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Front Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and food nearby (92). Parking (41) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Front Street name illegal parking than any other category, 200 of them, and parking ranks 41 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 358 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 56% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street condition (45 reports) and blocked driveway (32). In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Front Street. About 35 reports per 100 homes sit on Front 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 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 22 residential buildings on Front Street holding 1,029 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 47 homes to a building.
NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on Front Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Front Street ranks 75 on housing and 46 on infrastructure. Front Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 67 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 58. Transit ranks 87 and tree cover 72, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Front Street ranks 92 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Front Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Front Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 83.
The housing file puts 40% of the 1,029 homes on Front Street in rent stabilization, 410 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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Front Street runs through DUMBO, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).