Nelson Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Nelson Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Nelson Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (45) and food nearby (74). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Unsanitary condition leads the 311 file on Nelson Street, with 18 reports. Across every category, 357 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 5% of them name unsanitary condition. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then heat and hot water at 13. In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on Nelson Street. Set against the 230 homes on file, that is about 155 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 37 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Nelson Street, 42 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (21 violations) and plumbing (19). The housing file lists 63 residential buildings on Nelson Street holding 230 homes, with 40 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 31 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 4. That 4 on cleanliness puts Nelson Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Parking ranks 25 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 13. Against every street in the city, Nelson Street ranks 62 on tree cover and 56 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Nelson Street, at 74. Nelson Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Nelson Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 43.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 230 homes on file, 22 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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