Frost Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Frost Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 63, 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 Frost Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and food nearby (78). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Frost Street, with 54 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 266 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 53 reports, then blocked driveway at 24. In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on Frost Street. Set against the 472 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Frost Street carries 8 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 Frost Street is bed bugs, at 21 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 16 violations. The housing file lists 95 residential buildings on Frost Street holding 472 homes, with 47 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 78, with quietness at 25. A 25 on quietness places Frost Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 64 on the same scale, with parking at 47. Tree cover ranks 64 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Frost Street, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
25% of the 472 homes recorded on Frost Street are rent-stabilized, 112 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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Frost Street runs through East Williamsburg and Williamsburg, 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).