Midwood Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Midwood Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 66, 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 Midwood Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (64) and tree cover (86). Housing (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Midwood Street, with 154 reports. Across every category, 1,093 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (136 reports) and illegal parking (128). The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Midwood Street carries roughly 95 reports per 100 of them.
Midwood Street carries 139 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Midwood Street is pests, at 108 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 87 more, and bed bugs for 71. The housing file lists 430 residential buildings on Midwood Street holding 1,149 homes, with 101 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Midwood Street ranks 29 on quietness and 21 on parking. Midwood Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 25 and cleanliness at 22 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. Midwood Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Midwood Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 57.
Rent stabilization covers about 24% of the 1,149 homes on file, 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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