Grafton Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Grafton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 69, 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 Grafton Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and transit (74). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Grafton Street, with 85 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 373 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (41 reports) and residential noise (34). Reports on Grafton Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 91 reports for every 100 homes on Grafton Street.
The HPD file on Grafton Street carries 59 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Grafton Street, 36 violations of it. Plumbing follows at 19 violations, then paint and lead at 19. 146 residential buildings on Grafton Street hold the 408 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Grafton Street ranks 60 on infrastructure and 18 on housing. Grafton Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts quietness at 32 and parking at 21 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Grafton Street ranks 73 on tree cover and 59 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Grafton Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Grafton Street is traffic safety, at 96.
The housing file puts 22% of the 408 homes on Grafton Street in rent stabilization, 91 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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