Jay Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Jay Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Jay Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (82) and transit (98). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Jay Street. 97 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 476 of them. The whole 311 file on Jay Street holds 737 reports, and illegal parking is 65% of it. Homeless person assistance follows with 74 reports, and for hire vehicle complaint with 48. Reports on Jay Street span 73 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,410 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 12 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 16 violations on file. Heat and hot water accounts for 15 more. The housing file lists 9 residential buildings on Jay Street holding 1,410 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 157 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 76 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 15. That 15 on parking puts Jay Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 72 and infrastructure at 40 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Jay Street ranks 92 on food nearby and 37 on tree cover. Jay Street ranks 98 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
22% of the 1,410 homes recorded on Jay Street are rent-stabilized, 304 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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