Hill Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Hill Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Hill Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and transit (78). Street crime (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Hill Street, with 50 reports. Across every category, 177 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 27 reports, and residential noise with 16. Reports on Hill Street span 34 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Hill Street carries roughly 135 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 17 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Hill Street, 17 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 10 more. 44 residential buildings on Hill Street hold the 131 homes on file, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Hill Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Hill Street ranks 57 on infrastructure and 11 on housing. That 11 on housing puts Hill Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 28 and parking at 12. Against every street in the city, Hill Street ranks 74 on food nearby and 36 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Hill Street, at 78. Hill Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Hill Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 131 homes on file, 35 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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