Guernsey Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Guernsey Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Guernsey Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Guernsey Street name illegal parking than any other category, 25 of them, and cleanliness ranks 19 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Guernsey Street holds 161 reports, and illegal parking is 16% of it. Dirty condition is the next most-filed at 15 reports, then residential noise at 14. In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on Guernsey Street. The 311 file works out to about 42 reports for every 100 homes on Guernsey Street.
HPD has cited 9 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 Guernsey Street, 25 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 14 violations. PLUTO counts 75 residential buildings and 380 homes on Guernsey Street, with 48 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Guernsey Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Guernsey Street ranks 78 on infrastructure and 33 on quietness. That 33 on quietness puts Guernsey Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 66 and housing at 51 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 86 and tree cover 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Guernsey Street, at 95. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Guernsey Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Guernsey Street is traffic safety, at 96.
The housing file puts 19% of the 380 homes on Guernsey Street in rent stabilization, 73 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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Guernsey Street runs through Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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