Palmetto Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Palmetto Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, 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 Palmetto Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (59) and tree cover (74). Street crime (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Palmetto Street, with 128 reports. Across every category, 507 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 64 reports, then dirty condition at 48. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 900 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 50 Class C violations on Palmetto Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Palmetto Street is pests, at 55 violations. Bed bugs follows at 27 violations, then structure at 26. City housing records put 900 homes in 170 residential buildings on Palmetto Street, 69 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 50, with quietness at 27. That 27 on quietness puts Palmetto Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 46 and cleanliness at 29. Against every street in the city, Palmetto Street ranks 71 on transit and 68 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Palmetto Street, at 74. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Palmetto Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Palmetto Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 59.
The housing file puts 3% of the 900 homes on Palmetto Street in rent stabilization, 23 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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