Kent Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Kent Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Kent Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (68) and food nearby (93). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Kent Street name illegal parking than any other category, 107 of them. Across every category, 554 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 97 reports, and animal in a park with 53. In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on Kent Street. Divided by the homes on file, Kent Street carries roughly 133 reports per 100 of them.
Kent Street carries 53 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 33 violations on file. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (28 violations) and pests (25). City housing records put 417 homes in 95 residential buildings on Kent Street, 68 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.4 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 61 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 9. Kent Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Cleanliness ranks 51 on the same scale, with housing at 17. Against every street in the city, Kent Street ranks 83 on transit and 66 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Kent Street, at 93. Kent Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file puts 12% of the 417 homes on Kent Street in rent stabilization, 51 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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Kent Street runs through Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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).