Hawthorne Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Hawthorne Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Hawthorne Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and food nearby (82). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Hawthorne Street, with 318 reports. Across every category, 1,610 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 202 reports, then unsanitary condition at 115. The file runs across 72 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,648 homes on file, that is about 98 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 345 Class C violations on Hawthorne Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 21 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 320 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (315 violations) and doors (141). PLUTO counts 228 residential buildings and 1,648 homes on Hawthorne Street, with 102 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Hawthorne Street ranks 52 on parking and 25 on cleanliness. Hawthorne Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 40 on the same scale, with quietness at 33. The citywide frame puts transit at 78 and tree cover at 70. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Hawthorne Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hawthorne Street is traffic safety, at 86.
About 40% of the 1,648 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 656 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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