Hart Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Hart Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Hart Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (65) and tree cover (94). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Hart Street, with 248 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,778 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (218 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (153). Reports on Hart Street span 90 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 47 reports for every 100 homes on Hart Street.
Inspectors have written 193 Class C violations on Hart Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 193 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 170 violations, then paint and lead at 77. The housing file lists 593 residential buildings on Hart Street holding 3,806 homes, with 306 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.4 homes each.
NYPD records 28 people injured in crashes on Hart Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 61, with housing at 34. Hart Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 55 on the same scale, with quietness at 42. Food nearby ranks 85 and transit 81, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Hart Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Hart Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Hart Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 65.
The housing file puts 5% of the 3,806 homes on Hart Street in rent stabilization, 194 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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