Herbert Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Herbert Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Herbert Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (59) and food nearby (83). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Herbert Street name noise than any other category, 17 of them, and cleanliness ranks 9 among quiet residential streets. Noise accounts for 16% of the 107 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then snow or ice at 10. The file runs across 23 distinct 311 categories in all. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on Herbert Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Herbert Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 45 residential buildings on Herbert Street hold the 198 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.4 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 58 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 23. That 23 on housing puts Herbert Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Parking ranks 34 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 33. The citywide frame puts transit at 55 and tree cover at 35. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Herbert Street, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
The housing file puts 5% of the 198 homes on Herbert Street in rent stabilization, 10 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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