Powell Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Powell Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Powell Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (85) and transit (80). Street crime (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Powell Street, with 180 reports. Across every category, 378 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 111 reports, then blocked driveway at 47. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 665 homes on file, that is about 57 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 35 Class C violations on Powell Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Powell Street is pests, at 26 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (18 violations) and heat and hot water (18). The housing file lists 163 residential buildings on Powell Street holding 665 homes, with 15 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.1 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 48 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Powell Street ranks 39 on quietness and 6 on traffic safety. Powell Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts housing at 36 and infrastructure at 19 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 74 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
About 5% of the 665 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 36 homes in all.
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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
- Hinsdale Street, Brooklyn
- Newport Street, Brooklyn
- New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn
- Van Sinderen Avenue, Brooklyn
- Georgia Avenue, Brooklyn
- De Witt Avenue, Brooklyn
Powell Street runs through Brownsville, 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).