John Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does John Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts John Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and transit (48). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on John Street, with 35 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on John Street holds 49 reports, and illegal parking is 71% of it. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on John Street. Divided by the homes on file, John Street carries roughly 117 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on John Street.
Since 2021, reported crashes on John Street have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 71 among quiet residential streets and parking ranks 10. John Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 24 and infrastructure at 13. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and tree cover at 7. John Street ranks 48 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is where John Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 85.
Of the 42 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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