Heyward Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Heyward Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 69, 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 Heyward Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (87) and transit (81). Traffic safety (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Heyward Street, with 28 reports. The whole 311 file on Heyward Street holds 129 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. After that the file runs to missed collection (15 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (15). Reports on Heyward Street span 32 distinct 311 categories. About 42 reports per 100 homes sit on Heyward Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Heyward Street carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Heyward Street is bed bugs, at 35 violations. Pests follows at 34 violations, then paint and lead at 11. PLUTO counts 92 residential buildings and 310 homes on Heyward Street, with 25 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.4 homes each.
NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on Heyward Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 77 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 36. A 36 on infrastructure places Heyward Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 48 and parking at 44. Against every street in the city, Heyward Street ranks 66 on tree cover and 51 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Heyward Street, at 81. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Heyward Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Heyward Street is quietness, at 87.
3% of the 310 homes recorded on Heyward Street are rent-stabilized, 8 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
- Herkimer Street, Brooklyn
- Herzl Street, Brooklyn
- Hewes Street, Brooklyn
- Hicks Street, Brooklyn
- Highland Avenue, Brooklyn
- Highland Boulevard, Brooklyn
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).