Pilling Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Pilling Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Pilling Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and transit (90). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Pilling Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 77 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Pilling Street holds 153 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 50% of it. Vehicle noise follows with 30 reports, and residential noise with 22. Reports on Pilling Street span 24 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 86 reports for every 100 homes on Pilling Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Pilling Street. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 11 violations on file. 82 residential buildings on Pilling Street hold the 178 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 62, with traffic safety at 11. That 11 on traffic safety puts Pilling Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 33 on the same scale, with housing at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and tree cover at 47. Pilling Street ranks 90 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Pilling Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Of the 178 homes on file, none 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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Pilling Street runs through Bushwick, 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).