Livingston Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Livingston Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 93, 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 Livingston Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and transit (99). Traffic safety (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Livingston Street. Reported crashes here have injured 80 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 26 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 288 of them. Across every category, 426 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 68% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 67 reports, and vendor enforcement with 37. In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on Livingston Street. Divided by the homes on file, Livingston Street carries roughly 16 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Livingston Street carries 8 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Livingston Street, 10 violations of it. The housing file lists 43 residential buildings on Livingston Street holding 2,627 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 61 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 85 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 76. Livingston Street sits in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 84 and infrastructure at 81. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 96 and tree cover at 74. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Livingston Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Housing is where Livingston Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 90.
The housing file puts 65% of the 2,627 homes on Livingston Street in rent stabilization, 1,606 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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Livingston Street runs through DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights, 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).