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

Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Kane Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.

Calm 30, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Kane Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (69) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Kane Street name illegal parking than any other category, 82 of them, and cleanliness ranks 13 among quiet residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 46% of the 180 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 14 reports, and street condition with 11. Reports on Kane Street span 39 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Kane Street carries roughly 90 reports per 100 of them.

Kane Street carries 12 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. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Kane Street, 18 violations of it. Pests accounts for 17 more. PLUTO counts 68 residential buildings and 200 homes on Kane Street, with 30 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.

NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Kane Street since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 24 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 17. That 17 on housing puts Kane Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 21 and traffic safety at 20 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 62 and tree cover 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

Quietness is where Kane Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 40.

About 13% of the 200 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 25 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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