Grove Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Grove Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.

Calm 29, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Grove Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (78) and food nearby (87). Street crime (15) is the weak spot.

On the record

Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Grove Street, with 101 reports. The whole 311 file on Grove Street holds 555 reports, and residential noise is 18% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 74 reports, and heat and hot water with 67. In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on Grove Street. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on Grove Street, counting every category.

Inspectors have written 78 Class C violations on Grove Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Grove Street, 71 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (67 violations) and bed bugs (49). PLUTO counts 137 residential buildings and 863 homes on Grove Street, with 99 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.3 homes each.

Reported crashes on Grove Street have injured 20 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 32 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 19. Grove Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 26 and housing at 24. Transit ranks 84 and tree cover 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Grove Street ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Grove Street is parking, at 78.

Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 863 homes on file, 149 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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