Oak Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Oak Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Oak Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (82) and food nearby (89). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Oak Street, with 35 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 85 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Smoking or vaping follows with 23 reports, and noise with 12. Reports on Oak Street span 31 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 107 homes on file, that is about 79 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Oak Street. City housing records put 107 homes in 44 residential buildings on Oak Street, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Oak Street holds about 2.4 homes.
Among quiet residential streets, Oak Street ranks 47 on housing and 19 on parking. Oak Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 32 and quietness at 24 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 61 and tree cover 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Oak Street ranks 89 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Oak Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 82.
About 84% of the 107 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 554 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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