N 9 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does N 9 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 9 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (82) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on North 9 Street, with 59 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on North 9 Street holds 254 reports, and residential noise is 23% of it. After that the file runs to general construction and plumbing (44 reports) and graffiti (43). In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on North 9 Street. The 311 file works out to about 31 reports for every 100 homes on North 9 Street.
The HPD file on North 9 Street carries 9 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on North 9 Street, 11 violations of it. City housing records put 816 homes in 62 residential buildings on North 9 Street, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 81, with quietness at 51. That 51 on quietness puts North 9 Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 81 on the same scale, with parking at 64. Transit ranks 79 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. North 9 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where North 9 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 82.
The housing file puts 50% of the 816 homes on North 9 Street in rent stabilization, 405 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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N 9 Street runs through Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).