Mother Gaston Boulevard, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against major corridors. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Mother Gaston Boulevard in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (74) and tree cover (81). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Mother Gaston Boulevard, with 302 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among major corridors. Across every category, 1,050 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 288 reports, then animal-abuse at 86. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,701 homes on file, that is about 62 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 128 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Mother Gaston Boulevard, 98 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 42 more, and paint and lead for 35. The housing file lists 177 residential buildings on Mother Gaston Boulevard holding 1,701 homes, with 54 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 9.6 homes each.
NYPD records 81 people injured in crashes on Mother Gaston Boulevard since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 57 among major corridors and quietness ranks 12. That 12 on quietness puts Mother Gaston Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, traffic safety sits at 55 and housing at 13. The citywide frame puts transit at 69 and food nearby at 48. Mother Gaston Boulevard ranks 81 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 1,701 homes on file, 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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