Lawrence Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does Lawrence Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Lawrence Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and transit (99). Infrastructure (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Lawrence Street, with 52 reports. The whole 311 file on Lawrence Street holds 160 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (42 reports) and plumbing (31). Reports on Lawrence Street span 36 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 621 homes on file, that is about 26 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 8 residential buildings on Lawrence Street hold the 621 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Lawrence Street holds about 78 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Lawrence Street ranks 87 on traffic safety and 57 on quietness. A 57 on quietness places Lawrence Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 85 on the same scale, with housing at 68. Against every street in the city, Lawrence Street ranks 96 on food nearby and 40 on tree cover. Lawrence Street ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lawrence Street is parking, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 80% of the 621 homes on file, 506 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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Lawrence Street runs through DUMBO, 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).