Hemlock Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Hemlock Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 36, 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 Hemlock Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (42) and tree cover (82). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Hemlock Street name illegal parking than any other category, 138 of them, and parking ranks 23 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Hemlock Street holds 393 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (63 reports) and blocked driveway (61). Reports on Hemlock Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 615 homes on file, that is about 64 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Hemlock Street carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Hemlock Street, 64 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 27 more, and bed bugs for 24. 277 residential buildings on Hemlock Street hold the 615 homes on file, 77 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Hemlock Street holds about 2.2 homes.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 42, with traffic safety at 31. Hemlock Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 36 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 33. Against every street in the city, Hemlock Street ranks 79 on transit and 72 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. Hemlock Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hemlock Street is quietness, at 42.
None of the 615 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Hemlock Street runs through East New York & City Line and Cypress Hills, 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).