Olive Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Olive Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Olive Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (77) and food nearby (87). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Olive Street, with 12 reports. Across every category, 57 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Olive Street span 27 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 51 homes on file, that is about 112 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Olive Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 8 residential buildings on Olive Street hold the 51 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.4 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 50 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 18. Olive Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Parking ranks 50 on the same scale, with quietness at 37. Transit ranks 73 and tree cover 33, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Olive Street ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
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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