Jackson Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Jackson Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, 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 Jackson Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (64) and food nearby (90). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Jackson Street, with 100 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 376 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 71 reports, then homeless person assistance at 29. The file runs across 59 distinct 311 categories in all. About 69 reports per 100 homes sit on Jackson Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 19 Class C violations on Jackson Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Jackson Street is pests, at 31 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 24 violations. 106 residential buildings on Jackson Street hold the 546 homes on file, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.2 homes each.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Jackson Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Jackson Street ranks 53 on traffic safety and 14 on quietness. A 14 on quietness places Jackson Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 51 and housing at 36. The citywide frame puts transit at 70 and tree cover at 66. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Jackson Street, at 90. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Jackson Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Jackson Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 64.
15% of the 546 homes recorded on Jackson Street are rent-stabilized, 75 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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