Newport Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Newport Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, 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 Newport Street in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (52) and transit (73). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Newport Street, with 79 reports. The whole 311 file on Newport Street holds 384 reports, and residential noise is 21% of it. After that the file runs to vehicle noise (60 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (51). The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 268 homes on file, that is about 143 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Newport Street carries 50 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Newport Street, 49 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (29 violations) and paint and lead (27). The housing file lists 88 residential buildings on Newport Street holding 268 homes, with 40 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 44 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 46 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 4. A 4 on traffic safety places Newport Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 11 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 7. Tree cover ranks 68 and food nearby 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Newport Street ranks 73 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Newport Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 52.
11% of the 268 homes recorded on Newport Street are rent-stabilized, 30 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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Newport Street runs through Brownsville and East New York & New Lots, 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).