Pearson Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Pearson Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Pearson Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (43). Transit (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Pearson Street, with 44 reports. Across every category, 62 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 71% of them name illegal parking. In all, 17 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pearson Street. The 311 file works out to about 52 reports for every 100 homes on Pearson Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Pearson Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 31 residential buildings on Pearson Street holding 119 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.8 homes each.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Pearson Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 75, with traffic safety at 16. That 16 on traffic safety puts Pearson Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Quietness ranks 59 on the same scale, with parking at 17. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 12. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Pearson Street, at 43. Pearson Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
None of the 119 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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