Hicks Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Hicks Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, 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 Hicks Street in the top 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (80) and tree cover (90); traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Hicks Street. 69 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 15 among built-up residential streets. HPD has cited 30 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Helicopter noise is the most-filed, with 358 reports. Tree cover ranks 90, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 73 against every street in the city. Only about 15% of the 1,736 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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