N 8 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does N 8 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 8 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (78) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on North 8 Street name residential noise than any other category, 70 of them, and cleanliness ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Residential noise accounts for 13% of the 560 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (48 reports) and illegal parking (45). In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on North 8 Street. The 311 file works out to about 73 reports for every 100 homes on North 8 Street.
North 8 Street carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on North 8 Street, 51 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 43 violations, then paint and lead at 19. PLUTO counts 93 residential buildings and 766 homes on North 8 Street, with 66 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on North 8 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 62 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 23. North 8 Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 52 and housing at 31. Against every street in the city, North 8 Street ranks 80 on transit and 70 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. North 8 Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
Rent stabilization covers about 31% of the 766 homes on file, 236 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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