Garnet Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Garnet Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Garnet Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (81) and transit (85). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Garnet Street, with 38 reports. Across every category, 65 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 58% of them name heat and hot water. The file runs across 18 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Garnet Street carries roughly 108 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 15 Class C violations on Garnet Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is heat and hot water, with 12 violations on file. 11 residential buildings on Garnet Street hold the 60 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Garnet Street holds about 5.5 homes.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among quiet residential streets, Garnet Street ranks 66 on parking and 8 on traffic safety. Garnet Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 27 and cleanliness at 19. Food nearby ranks 79 and tree cover 16, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Garnet Street ranks 85 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
Rent stabilization covers about 31% of the 60 homes on file, 18 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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Garnet Street runs through Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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