N 3 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does N 3 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts N 3 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and food nearby (96). Quietness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on North 3 Street name commercial noise than any other category, 87 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Commercial noise accounts for 41% of the 212 reports on file here. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (41 reports) and residential noise (32). In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on North 3 Street. The 311 file works out to about 62 reports for every 100 homes on North 3 Street.
Inspectors have written 22 Class C violations on North 3 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on North 3 Street, 20 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead, at 11 violations. City housing records put 344 homes in 12 residential buildings on North 3 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 29 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 78, with cleanliness at 15. A 15 on cleanliness places North 3 Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 61 on the same scale, with housing at 39. Transit ranks 62 and tree cover 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. North 3 Street ranks 96 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band North 3 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 68% of the 344 homes on file, 235 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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