Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Old Fulton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, 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 Old Fulton Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and food nearby (93). Parking (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Old Fulton Street, with 735 reports, and parking ranks 0 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Old Fulton Street holds 1,019 reports, and illegal parking is 72% of it. Vendor enforcement follows with 117 reports, and commercial disposal complaint with 98. In all, 36 distinct 311 categories are represented on Old Fulton Street. Set against the 158 homes on file, that is about 645 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Old Fulton Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 158 homes in 12 residential buildings on Old Fulton Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Old Fulton Street have injured 9 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Old Fulton Street ranks 67 on infrastructure and 25 on quietness. That 25 on quietness puts Old Fulton Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 45 and traffic safety at 30. The citywide frame puts transit at 84 and tree cover at 15. Old Fulton 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.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Old Fulton Street is housing, at 93.
About 3% of the 158 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 5 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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Old Fulton Street runs through DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights, 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).