Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Havemeyer Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Havemeyer Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (76) and transit (95). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Havemeyer Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 357 of them, and cleanliness ranks 1 among busy avenues. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 55% of the 649 reports on file here. After that the file runs to commercial noise (189 reports) and residential noise (115). The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. About 133 reports per 100 homes sit on Havemeyer Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 19 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 21 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 17 more. PLUTO counts 49 residential buildings and 488 homes on Havemeyer Street, with 21 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Havemeyer Street holds about 10 homes.
Reported crashes on Havemeyer Street have injured 38 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 70 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 6. That 6 on quietness puts Havemeyer Street in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 57 and traffic safety at 31. Food nearby ranks 93 and tree cover 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Havemeyer Street ranks 95 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Havemeyer Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 488 homes on file, 126 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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Havemeyer Street runs through Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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