Jerome Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Jerome Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, 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 Jerome Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (59) and tree cover (91). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Jerome Street, with 397 reports, and parking ranks 16 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Jerome Street holds 940 reports, and illegal parking is 42% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 102 reports, and residential noise with 73. The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,391 homes on file, that is about 68 reports per 100 homes.
Jerome Street carries 86 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Jerome Street, 73 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 27 more, and doors for 20. The housing file lists 381 residential buildings on Jerome Street holding 1,391 homes, with 75 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
NYPD records 22 people injured in crashes on Jerome Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Jerome Street ranks 59 on cleanliness and 27 on housing. A 27 on housing places Jerome Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 45 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 32. Transit ranks 66 and food nearby 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Jerome Street ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is where Jerome Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 59.
About 12% of the 1,391 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 166 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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Jerome Street runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York and Cypress Hills, 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).