Herkimer Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Herkimer Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Herkimer Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (40) and tree cover (95). Street crime (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Herkimer Street, with 515 reports. The whole 311 file on Herkimer Street holds 2,420 reports, and heat and hot water is 21% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (508 reports) and illegal parking (215). Reports on Herkimer Street span 86 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 103 reports for every 100 homes on Herkimer Street.
HPD has cited 269 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Herkimer Street, 298 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 169 more, and paint and lead for 161. PLUTO counts 594 residential buildings and 2,359 homes on Herkimer Street, with 258 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4 homes each.
NYPD records 54 people injured in crashes on Herkimer Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 33 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 13. That 13 on housing puts Herkimer Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 28 and quietness at 17. Against every street in the city, Herkimer Street ranks 91 on transit and 62 on food nearby. Herkimer Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Herkimer Street is infrastructure, at 40.
21% of the 2,359 homes recorded on Herkimer Street are rent-stabilized, 500 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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