Hoyt Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Hoyt Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Hoyt Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (82) and transit (93). Parking (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Hoyt Street, with 440 reports, and parking ranks 31 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 902 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name illegal parking. Helicopter noise follows with 188 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 65. Reports on Hoyt Street span 73 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Hoyt Street carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
Hoyt Street carries 21 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Hoyt Street, 25 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 19 violations. City housing records put 2,126 homes in 127 residential buildings on Hoyt Street, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 17 homes to a building.
NYPD records 46 people injured in crashes on Hoyt Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 75 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 41. A 41 on traffic safety places Hoyt Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 68 and quietness at 60. Food nearby ranks 93 and tree cover 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Hoyt Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
8% of the 2,126 homes recorded on Hoyt Street are rent-stabilized, 164 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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Hoyt Street runs through Carroll Gardens and DUMBO, 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).