Lorimer Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Lorimer Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Lorimer Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (62) and food nearby (90). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Lorimer Street, with 175 reports, and cleanliness ranks 14 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Lorimer Street holds 1,109 reports, and illegal parking is 16% of it. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 172 reports, then residential noise at 128. Reports on Lorimer Street span 88 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,987 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 52 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Lorimer Street is bed bugs, at 86 violations. Pests follows at 78 violations, then doors at 16. PLUTO counts 306 residential buildings and 1,987 homes on Lorimer Street, with 133 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.5 homes each.
Since 2021, 84 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Lorimer Street ranks 52 on housing and 24 on traffic safety. That 24 on traffic safety puts Lorimer Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 45 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 41. Tree cover ranks 90 and transit 88, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Lorimer Street, at 90. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Lorimer Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Lorimer Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 62.
14% of the 1,987 homes recorded on Lorimer Street are rent-stabilized, 274 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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Lorimer Street runs through East Williamsburg, Williamsburg and South 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).