N 4 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does N 4 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, 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 N 4 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on North 4 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 101 of them, and cleanliness ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 231 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 44 reports, and graffiti with 36. The file runs across 51 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 290 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on North 4 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 33 residential buildings and 290 homes on North 4 Street, with 17 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 8.8 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 44 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 29. A 29 on quietness places North 4 Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 39 and infrastructure at 39 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 68 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on North 4 Street, at 96. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band North 4 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where North 4 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 78.
8% of the 290 homes recorded on North 4 Street are rent-stabilized, 24 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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