Legion Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Legion Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 66, 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 Legion Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (54) and transit (72). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Legion Street, with 122 reports. Across every category, 522 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. Blocked driveway follows with 55 reports, and heat and hot water with 45. In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on Legion Street. The 311 file works out to about 131 reports for every 100 homes on Legion Street.
Legion Street carries 74 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Legion Street, 84 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 44 more, and paint and lead for 36. City housing records put 400 homes in 186 residential buildings on Legion Street, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 50, with housing at 7. That 7 on housing puts Legion Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 45 and quietness at 11. Tree cover ranks 71 and food nearby 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. Legion Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is where Legion Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 54.
Of the 400 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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