Plaza Street W, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Plaza Street W in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Plaza Street W in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and transit (94). Traffic safety (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Plaza Street W name illegal parking than any other category, 16 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 43% of the 37 reports on file here. Reports on Plaza Street W span 29 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 14 reports for every 100 homes on Plaza Street W.
The HPD file on Plaza Street W holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 9 residential buildings on Plaza Street W hold the 258 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Plaza Street W holds about 29 homes.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 95, with parking at 64. Plaza Street W sits in the stronger half of quiet residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 74 on the same scale, with housing at 71. Against every street in the city, Plaza Street W ranks 87 on food nearby and 30 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Plaza Street W, at 94. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Plaza Street W is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Plaza Street W is cleanliness, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 258 on Plaza Street W.
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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Plaza Street W runs through Park Slope, 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).