Hancock Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Hancock Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, 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 Hancock Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (55) and tree cover (98). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Hancock Street, with 479 reports, and cleanliness ranks 18 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 2,029 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (275 reports) and illegal parking (242). Reports on Hancock Street span 92 distinct 311 categories. About 57 reports per 100 homes sit on Hancock Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 222 Class C violations on Hancock Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Hancock Street, 351 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (288 violations) and paint and lead (154). PLUTO counts 1,072 residential buildings and 3,550 homes on Hancock Street, with 500 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 60 people injured in crashes on Hancock Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 43, with housing at 25. Hancock Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Traffic safety ranks 43 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 26. Food nearby ranks 83 and transit 72, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Hancock Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 55.
10% of the 3,550 homes recorded on Hancock Street are rent-stabilized, 338 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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Hancock Street runs through Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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