Hicks Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Hicks Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 44, 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 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (81) and tree cover (90). Traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Hicks Street. 69 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 15 among built-up residential streets. Helicopter noise draws more reports than anything else here, 358 of them. Across every category, 715 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name helicopter noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 172 reports, then residential noise at 59. In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hicks Street. Set against the 1,736 homes on file, that is about 41 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Hicks Street carries 33 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Hicks Street is bed bugs, at 49 violations. Pests follows at 39 violations, then paint and lead at 11. PLUTO counts 194 residential buildings and 1,736 homes on Hicks Street, with 93 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Hicks Street holds about 8.9 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 63 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 22. Hicks Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 58 and quietness at 33 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 82 and transit 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Hicks Street ranks 90 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 Hicks Street is cleanliness, at 81.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 1,736 homes on file, 254 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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