Joralemon Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Joralemon Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 26, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 91, 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 Joralemon Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (51) and transit (97). Infrastructure (11) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Joralemon Street, with 81 reports. Across every category, 324 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 44 reports, and blocked driveway with 35. Reports on Joralemon Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. About 69 reports per 100 homes sit on Joralemon Street, counting every category.

Joralemon Street carries 28 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. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 17 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 17 violations. PLUTO counts 76 residential buildings and 468 homes on Joralemon Street, with 29 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.2 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on Joralemon Street have injured 18 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 33 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 12. Joralemon Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 31 and traffic safety at 19. Against every street in the city, Joralemon Street ranks 94 on food nearby and 70 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Joralemon Street, at 97. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Joralemon Street is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Joralemon Street is quietness, at 51.

About 10% of the 468 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 49 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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