Pioneer Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Pioneer Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 52, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Pioneer Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (86) and food nearby (73). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.

On the record

Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Pioneer Street, with 12 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 31 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name commercial noise. Water system is the next most-filed, with 11 reports. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pioneer Street. About 38 reports per 100 homes sit on Pioneer Street, counting every category.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Pioneer Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 43 residential buildings on Pioneer Street hold the 82 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Pioneer Street since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 63 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 25. That 25 on quietness puts Pioneer Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 57 and housing at 46 among quiet residential streets. Tree cover ranks 51 and transit 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 73. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Pioneer Street is scored inside.

Traffic safety is where Pioneer Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 86.

Of the 82 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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