Nassau Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Nassau Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 66, 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 Nassau Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and transit (90). Tree cover (34) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Nassau Street, with 37 reports. Across every category, 96 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 13 reports. In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Nassau Street. The 311 file works out to about 16 reports for every 100 homes on Nassau Street.
The HPD file on Nassau Street carries 4 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 3 residential buildings on Nassau Street hold the 604 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 201 homes each.
Reported crashes on Nassau Street have injured 7 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Nassau Street ranks 96 on infrastructure and 56 on parking. Nassau Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts housing at 87 and traffic safety at 56 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Nassau Street ranks 48 on food nearby and 34 on tree cover. Nassau Street ranks 90 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
17% of the 604 homes recorded on Nassau Street are rent-stabilized, 103 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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Nassau Street runs through DUMBO, 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).