Fulton Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Fulton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 94, 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 Fulton Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Fulton Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Fulton Street have injured 929 people, and traffic safety ranks 13 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 741 of them. The whole 311 file on Fulton Street holds 4,878 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. After that the file runs to commercial noise (616 reports) and heat and hot water (447). In all, 125 distinct 311 categories are represented on Fulton Street. Divided by the homes on file, Fulton Street carries roughly 62 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 623 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Fulton Street is pests, at 475 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 261 more, and bed bugs for 197. PLUTO counts 847 residential buildings and 7,883 homes on Fulton Street, with 154 walk-ups and 32 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.3 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Fulton Street ranks 76 on infrastructure and 50 on housing. That 50 on housing puts Fulton Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 65 and cleanliness at 55 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Fulton Street ranks 95 on transit and 88 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. Fulton Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
19% of the 7,883 homes recorded on Fulton Street are rent-stabilized, 1,393 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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Fulton Street runs through Bed-Stuy, Cypress Hills and Ocean Hill, 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).