N 5 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does N 5 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 5 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (72) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on North 5 Street, with 91 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 330 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 47 reports, then residential noise at 37. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 473 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on North 5 Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on North 5 Street, 25 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 18 more. PLUTO counts 54 residential buildings and 473 homes on North 5 Street, with 33 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on North 5 Street holds about 8.8 homes.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, North 5 Street ranks 57 on housing and 12 on quietness. A 12 on quietness places North 5 Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 55 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 36. Transit ranks 79 and tree cover 65, 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 5 Street, at 97. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band North 5 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on North 5 Street is infrastructure, at 72.
About 32% of the 473 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 150 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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