Newel Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does Newel Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, 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 Newel Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (45) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Newel Street name illegal parking than any other category, 37 of them, and cleanliness ranks 45 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Newel Street holds 129 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (17 reports) and blocked driveway (15). In all, 44 distinct 311 categories are represented on Newel Street. The 311 file works out to about 24 reports for every 100 homes on Newel Street.
The HPD file on Newel Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Newel Street is bed bugs, at 35 violations. Pests follows at 27 violations. City housing records put 546 homes in 125 residential buildings on Newel Street, 80 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Newel Street holds about 4.4 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 91, with housing at 57. A 57 on housing places Newel Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 74 and quietness at 71. The citywide frame puts transit at 73 and tree cover at 58. Newel Street ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
About 15% of the 546 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 77 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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Newel Street runs through Greenpoint, 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).