Humboldt Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Humboldt Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Humboldt Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and food nearby (88). Traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Humboldt Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Humboldt Street have injured 94 people, and traffic safety ranks 14 among built-up residential streets. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Humboldt Street, with 155 reports. The whole 311 file on Humboldt Street holds 674 reports, and residential noise is 23% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (88 reports) and illegal parking (79). Reports on Humboldt Street span 82 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Humboldt Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Humboldt Street carries 25 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Humboldt Street is bed bugs, at 54 violations. Pests follows at 49 violations, then doors at 18. City housing records put 1,958 homes in 278 residential buildings on Humboldt Street, 128 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 62 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 26. Humboldt Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 54 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 44. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 86 and transit at 72. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Humboldt Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Humboldt Street is parking, at 68.
About 5% of the 1,958 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 94 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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