Norfolk Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Norfolk Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Norfolk Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (84) and tree cover (33). Housing (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on Norfolk Street. About 102 reports per 100 homes sit on Norfolk Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 9 Class C violations on Norfolk Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 47 residential buildings and 51 homes on Norfolk Street, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Norfolk Street have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, Norfolk Street ranks 47 on quietness and 15 on parking. Norfolk Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 42 and cleanliness at 15. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 27 and transit at 16. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Norfolk Street, at 33. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Norfolk Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
None of the 51 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Norfolk Street runs through Sheepshead Bay, 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).