Garden Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Garden Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Garden Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (55) and transit (89). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Garden Street, with 37 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Garden Street holds 59 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 63% of it. Unsanitary condition follows with 10 reports. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Garden Street. Set against the 85 homes on file, that is about 69 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Garden Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. HPD's most-cited category on Garden Street is pests, at 16 violations. Structure accounts for 11 more, and paint and lead for 11. PLUTO counts 13 residential buildings and 85 homes on Garden Street, with 2 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.5 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 45, with quietness at 10. Garden Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 22 and traffic safety at 14. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 84 and tree cover at 26. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Garden Street, at 89. Garden Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Parking is where Garden Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 55.
The housing file puts 7% of the 85 homes on Garden Street in rent stabilization, 6 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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