Highland Place, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Highland Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 21, 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 Highland Place in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (41) and transit (77). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Highland Place, with 55 reports. Across every category, 236 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (41 reports) and blocked driveway (20). The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 291 homes on file, that is about 81 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Highland Place carries 18 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Highland Place, 20 violations of it. Behind it the file holds electrical (17 violations) and bed bugs (16). PLUTO counts 110 residential buildings and 291 homes on Highland Place, with 31 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Highland Place holds about 2.6 homes.
Reported crashes on Highland Place have injured 12 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Highland Place ranks 33 on housing and 13 on cleanliness. A 13 on cleanliness places Highland Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 25 and traffic safety at 15. Food nearby ranks 71 and tree cover 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Highland Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Highland Place is quietness, at 41.
The housing file puts 15% of the 291 homes on Highland Place in rent stabilization, 43 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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