Poplar Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Poplar Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Poplar Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (94). Street crime (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 17 distinct 311 categories are represented on Poplar Street.
The HPD file on Poplar Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 5 residential buildings on Poplar Street hold the 137 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 27 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Poplar Street have injured no one.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 93, with housing at 37. Poplar Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on housing. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 91 and quietness at 69. Against every street in the city, Poplar Street ranks 92 on transit and 39 on tree cover. Poplar Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Poplar Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 95.
Of the 137 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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