Leonard Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Leonard Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Leonard Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Leonard Street, with 411 reports, and cleanliness ranks 27 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 909 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (68 reports) and graffiti (60). The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. About 38 reports per 100 homes sit on Leonard Street, counting every category.
Leonard Street carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Leonard Street, 96 violations of it. Pests follows at 70 violations, then paint and lead at 18. The housing file lists 303 residential buildings on Leonard Street holding 2,391 homes, with 173 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.9 homes each.
NYPD records 58 people injured in crashes on Leonard Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 84 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 30. That 30 on parking puts Leonard Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 70 and traffic safety at 34. Against every street in the city, Leonard Street ranks 89 on tree cover and 80 on transit. Leonard Street ranks 92 on food nearby, 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 Leonard Street is infrastructure, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 2,391 homes on file, 117 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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Leonard Street runs through East Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Williamsburg, 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).