Powers Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Powers Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Powers Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (70) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Powers Street name residential noise than any other category, 77 of them, and cleanliness ranks 3 among built-up residential streets. Residential noise accounts for 26% of the 300 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 60 reports, and heat and hot water with 20. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Powers Street carries roughly 47 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 26 Class C violations on Powers Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Powers Street, 35 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 22 violations. 168 residential buildings on Powers Street hold the 637 homes on file, 70 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Powers Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 69, with housing at 42. That 42 on housing puts Powers Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 50 on the same scale, with quietness at 44. The citywide frame puts transit at 85 and tree cover at 70. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Powers Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where Powers Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 70.
5% of the 637 homes recorded on Powers Street are rent-stabilized, 33 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.
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