Lake Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Lake Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Lake Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (80) and transit (84). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lake Street name illegal parking than any other category, 50 of them. Across every category, 185 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (49 reports) and noise (21). The file runs across 37 distinct 311 categories in all. About 49 reports per 100 homes sit on Lake Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Lake Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lake Street, 10 violations of it. PLUTO counts 193 residential buildings and 376 homes on Lake Street, with 29 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 76, with parking at 16. Lake Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 75 and housing at 72. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 69 and food nearby at 65. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Lake Street, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
The housing file puts 2% of the 376 homes on Lake Street in rent stabilization, 8 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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Lake Street runs through Gravesend and Gravesend & Homecrest, 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).