Highland Boulevard, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311 & City Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Highland Boulevard in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 10, ranked against major corridors. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, and little within a walk.
That puts Highland Boulevard in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (18) and tree cover (75). The lowest of the ten is parking (5).
On the record
More 311 reports on Highland Boulevard name illegal parking than any other category, 62 of them, and parking ranks 5 among major corridors. Illegal parking accounts for 14% of the 442 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (55 reports) and residential noise (38). The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Highland Boulevard carries roughly 116 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 29 Class C violations on Highland Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 33 violations on file. Behind it the file holds doors (28 violations) and paint and lead (21). PLUTO counts 80 residential buildings and 382 homes on Highland Boulevard, with 1 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.8 homes each.
NYPD records 89 people injured in crashes on Highland Boulevard since 2021.
Among major corridors, Highland Boulevard ranks 18 on infrastructure and 7 on traffic safety. That 7 on traffic safety puts Highland Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, housing sits at 8 and quietness at 7. The citywide frame puts transit at 58 and food nearby at 23. Highland Boulevard ranks 75 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 18.
31% of the 382 homes recorded on Highland Boulevard are rent-stabilized, 117 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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Highland Boulevard runs through Cypress Hills, 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).