Hope Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Hope Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 Hope Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (77) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Hope Street, with 167 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 305 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (49 reports) and commercial noise (25). In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on Hope Street. Divided by the homes on file, Hope Street carries roughly 51 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Hope Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 23 residential buildings on Hope Street hold the 603 homes on file, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 59, with parking at 25. Hope Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 49 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 41. Against every street in the city, Hope Street ranks 90 on transit and 40 on tree cover. Hope Street ranks 96 on food nearby, 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 Hope Street is housing, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 603 homes on file, 190 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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