Penn Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Penn Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Penn Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and transit (86). Housing (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Penn Street, with 30 reports. Across every category, 236 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name illegal parking. Missed collection is the next most-filed at 24 reports, then dirty condition at 14. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 501 homes on file, that is about 47 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Penn Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Penn Street is bed bugs, at 96 violations. Pests accounts for 82 more. 171 residential buildings on Penn Street hold the 501 homes on file, 105 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 85 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 35. That 35 on infrastructure puts Penn Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 67 and traffic safety at 35. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 69 and food nearby at 63. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Penn Street, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is where Penn Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 98.
None of the 501 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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Penn Street runs through South Williamsburg, 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).