Main Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Main Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Main Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (100) and food nearby (94). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Main Street, with 154 reports, and parking ranks 5 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Main Street holds 313 reports, and illegal parking is 49% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then residential noise at 16. Reports on Main Street span 29 distinct 311 categories. About 135 reports per 100 homes sit on Main Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Main Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 4 residential buildings on Main Street hold the 231 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Main Street holds about 58 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 99 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 13. That 13 on quietness puts Main Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 96 and traffic safety at 51 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Main Street ranks 75 on transit and 15 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Main Street is scored inside.
Housing is where Main Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 100.
Of the 231 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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