Locust Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Locust Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Locust Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (43) and transit (91). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Locust Street, with 172 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Locust Street holds 202 reports, and commercial noise is 85% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 60 reports, and residential noise with 44. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Locust Street carries roughly 194 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on Locust Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 104 homes in 17 residential buildings on Locust Street, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.1 homes each.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 24, with cleanliness at 5. A 5 on cleanliness places Locust Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 22 and parking at 11. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 90 and tree cover at 22. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Locust Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Locust Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 43.
2% of the 104 homes recorded on Locust Street are rent-stabilized, 2 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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