Mac Dougal Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Mac Dougal Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, 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 Dougal Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (60) and transit (87). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Mac Dougal Street, with 148 reports. Across every category, 751 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 78 reports, then unsanitary condition at 77. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on Mac Dougal Street. About 108 reports per 100 homes sit on Mac Dougal Street, counting every category.
Mac Dougal Street carries 121 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 17 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 96 violations on file. Pests accounts for 92 more, and structure for 67. City housing records put 693 homes in 209 residential buildings on Mac Dougal Street, 97 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 20 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 55 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 13. Mac Dougal Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Cleanliness ranks 31 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 26. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 77 and food nearby at 57. Mac Dougal Street ranks 87 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 60.
About 3% of the 693 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 22 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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