Kensington Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Kensington Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Kensington Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (76) and food nearby (27). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 6 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Kensington Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 37 homes in 33 residential buildings on Kensington Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Kensington Street have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 74 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 11. That 11 on cleanliness puts Kensington Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 70 on the same scale, with quietness at 48. Tree cover ranks 22 and transit 21, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Kensington Street ranks 27 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Kensington Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Kensington Street is housing, at 76.
Of the 37 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.
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).