Grattan Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Grattan Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Grattan Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (42) and food nearby (90). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Grattan Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 25 of them, and cleanliness ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Grattan Street holds 179 reports, and heat and hot water is 14% of it. Illegal parking follows with 22 reports, and blocked driveway with 19. In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on Grattan Street. Set against the 160 homes on file, that is about 112 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Grattan Street carries 8 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on Grattan Street, 21 violations of it. Doors follows at 19 violations, then pests at 16. City housing records put 160 homes in 25 residential buildings on Grattan Street, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Grattan Street holds about 6.4 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 36 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 8. Grattan Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 22 and quietness at 20 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 79 and tree cover 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Grattan Street, at 90. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Grattan Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Grattan Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 42.
24% of the 160 homes recorded on Grattan Street are rent-stabilized, 39 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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Grattan Street runs through East Williamsburg, 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).