Polhemus Place, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Polhemus Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Polhemus Place in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (76) and food nearby (89). Tree cover (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 8 distinct 311 categories are represented on Polhemus Place.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Polhemus Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 18 residential buildings on Polhemus Place hold the 38 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 65 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 48. That 48 on housing puts Polhemus Place in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 65 and cleanliness at 50 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 78 and tree cover 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 89. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Polhemus Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Polhemus Place is infrastructure, at 71.
Of the 38 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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