Hewes Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Hewes Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Hewes Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and transit (84). Housing (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
Missed collection is the most-filed complaint on Hewes Street, with 37 reports. The whole 311 file on Hewes Street holds 270 reports, and missed collection is 14% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (27 reports) and heat and hot water (25). The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Hewes Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 27 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Hewes Street, 99 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (96 violations) and doors (26). City housing records put 803 homes in 175 residential buildings on Hewes Street, 125 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.6 homes to a building.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Hewes Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 86, with cleanliness at 38. A 38 on cleanliness places Hewes Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 70 and traffic safety at 62. Tree cover ranks 79 and food nearby 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Hewes Street, at 84. Hewes Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hewes Street is parking, at 98.
The housing file puts 22% of the 803 homes on Hewes Street in rent stabilization, 180 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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Hewes Street runs through South Williamsburg and Williamsburg, 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).