Kosciuszko Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Kosciuszko Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Kosciuszko Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (59) and tree cover (85). Street crime (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Kosciuszko Street, with 131 reports. Across every category, 746 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (115 reports) and heat and hot water (110). In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on Kosciuszko Street. Divided by the homes on file, Kosciuszko Street carries roughly 54 reports per 100 of them.
Kosciuszko Street carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Kosciuszko Street, 126 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 73 violations, then paint and lead at 67. City housing records put 1,393 homes in 315 residential buildings on Kosciuszko Street, 124 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.4 homes each.
NYPD records 16 people injured in crashes on Kosciuszko Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 58 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 13. That 13 on cleanliness puts Kosciuszko Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 53 and housing at 29 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 76 and food nearby 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Kosciuszko Street ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Kosciuszko Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 59.
About 24% of the 1,393 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 316 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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Kosciuszko Street runs through Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, 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).