Jewel Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Jewel Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Jewel Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (56) and food nearby (82). Housing (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Jewel Street name illegal parking than any other category, 145 of them. Across every category, 148 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 98% of them name illegal parking. Dirty condition follows with 18 reports. In all, 37 distinct 311 categories are represented on Jewel Street. About 55 reports per 100 homes sit on Jewel Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Jewel Street carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Jewel Street, 25 violations of it. Pests follows at 16 violations. The housing file lists 78 residential buildings on Jewel Street holding 269 homes, with 42 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.4 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 46 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 22. That 22 on cleanliness puts Jewel Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 40 and parking at 30 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 58 and tree cover 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is where Jewel Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 56.
The housing file puts 13% of the 269 homes on Jewel Street in rent stabilization, 33 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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