Lawton Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Lawton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lawton Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and transit (86). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lawton Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 31 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 20% of the 154 reports on file here. Unsanitary condition follows with 15 reports. In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lawton Street. The 311 file works out to about 162 reports for every 100 homes on Lawton Street.
The HPD file on Lawton Street carries 39 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Lawton Street, 18 violations of it. Doors follows at 17 violations, then pests at 17. PLUTO counts 14 residential buildings and 95 homes on Lawton Street, with 8 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Lawton Street holds about 6.8 homes.
Among quiet residential streets, Lawton Street ranks 62 on parking and 16 on cleanliness. A 16 on cleanliness places Lawton Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 25 and quietness at 21 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 85 and tree cover 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Lawton Street ranks 86 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Lawton Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 63% of the 95 homes on file, 55 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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