Kimball Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Kimball Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Kimball Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (88) and tree cover (79). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Helicopter noise is the most-filed complaint on Kimball Street, with 233 reports. Across every category, 318 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 73% of them name helicopter noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (85 reports) and abandoned vehicle (76). Reports on Kimball Street span 37 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 397 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Kimball Street. The housing file lists 291 residential buildings on Kimball Street holding 397 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 61, with quietness at 10. A 10 on quietness places Kimball Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 18 and parking at 16. Food nearby ranks 65 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Kimball Street ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is where Kimball Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 88.
Of the 397 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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