Halsey Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Halsey 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 Halsey Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (77) and tree cover (95). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Halsey Street, with 364 reports, and cleanliness ranks 14 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,847 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 271 reports, and illegal parking with 249. The file runs across 105 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,047 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 199 Class C violations on Halsey Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 286 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 229 more, and paint and lead for 144. PLUTO counts 897 residential buildings and 3,047 homes on Halsey Street, with 409 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 142 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 40, with traffic safety at 15. Halsey Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Housing ranks 26 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 24. Food nearby ranks 84 and transit 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Halsey Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Halsey Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Halsey Street is parking, at 77.
13% of the 3,047 homes recorded on Halsey Street are rent-stabilized, 385 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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Halsey Street runs through Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, 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).