Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Mac Donough Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Mac Donough Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and tree cover (93). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Mac Donough Street, with 165 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,511 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 109 reports, and residential noise with 63. In all, 71 distinct 311 categories are represented on Mac Donough Street. About 74 reports per 100 homes sit on Mac Donough Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Mac Donough Street carries 253 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Mac Donough Street, 218 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (172 violations) and paint and lead (77). The housing file lists 599 residential buildings on Mac Donough Street holding 2,055 homes, with 286 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 28 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 57, with housing at 12. A 12 on housing places Mac Donough Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 53 and infrastructure at 33. Food nearby ranks 81 and transit 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Mac Donough Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Mac Donough Street is parking, at 68.
The housing file puts 11% of the 2,055 homes on Mac Donough Street in rent stabilization, 216 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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