Henry Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Henry Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Henry Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (82) and tree cover (93). Infrastructure (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Henry Street, with 285 reports. The whole 311 file on Henry Street holds 1,255 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Residential noise follows with 235 reports, and street condition with 70. The file runs across 103 distinct 311 categories in all. About 58 reports per 100 homes sit on Henry Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 70 Class C violations on Henry Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 134 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 122 violations, then paint and lead at 65. PLUTO counts 330 residential buildings and 2,150 homes on Henry Street, with 202 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Henry Street have injured 36 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 54 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 38. A 38 on cleanliness places Henry Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 47 and housing at 46 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 89 and transit 81, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Henry Street, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 57.
6% of the 2,150 homes recorded on Henry Street are rent-stabilized, 128 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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Henry Street runs through Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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