Grand Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Grand Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 Grand Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (76) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Grand Street, with 591 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 2,548 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name commercial noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 476 reports, then residential noise at 237. The file runs across 100 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Grand Street carries roughly 117 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 42 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Grand Street, 86 violations of it. Pests follows at 76 violations, then doors at 28. City housing records put 2,187 homes in 374 residential buildings on Grand Street, 74 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 17 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Grand Street holds about 5.8 homes.
Since 2021, 233 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 75, with traffic safety at 21. That 21 on traffic safety puts Grand Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 71 on the same scale, with quietness at 29. Against every street in the city, Grand Street ranks 88 on tree cover and 73 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Grand Street, at 93. Grand Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
About 27% of the 2,187 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 589 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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