Gold Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Gold Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, 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 Gold Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (86) and food nearby (68). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Gold Street name illegal parking than any other category, 2,387 of them, and parking ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 83% of the 2,876 reports on file here. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (140 reports) and residential noise (65). In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on Gold Street. About 141 reports per 100 homes sit on Gold Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 13 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 16 residential buildings on Gold Street holding 2,041 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 128 homes each.
Reported crashes on Gold Street have injured 38 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Gold Street ranks 81 on housing and 40 on traffic safety. A 40 on traffic safety places Gold Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 80 and quietness at 47. Against every street in the city, Gold Street ranks 67 on transit and 56 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Gold Street, at 68. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Gold Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 86.
75% of the 2,041 homes recorded on Gold Street are rent-stabilized, 1,533 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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Gold 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).