Java Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Java Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Java Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (66) and food nearby (92). Infrastructure (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Java Street, with 39 reports. Across every category, 215 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (34 reports) and residential noise (23). Reports on Java Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 46 reports for every 100 homes on Java Street.
The HPD file on Java Street carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Java Street, 27 violations of it. Pests follows at 24 violations. City housing records put 465 homes in 107 residential buildings on Java Street, 58 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 53 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 37. A 37 on parking places Java Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 52 and quietness at 45 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 74 and tree cover 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Java Street ranks 92 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
About 14% of the 465 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 61 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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