Prescott Place, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Prescott Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Prescott Place in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (100) and transit (84). Tree cover (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Prescott Place, with 22 reports. Across every category, 43 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 51% of them name residential noise. Reports on Prescott Place span 19 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Prescott Place carries roughly 15 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Prescott Place. PLUTO counts 5 residential buildings and 290 homes on Prescott Place, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 58 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Prescott Place since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 100 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 27. Prescott Place sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 97 and quietness at 32. Against every street in the city, Prescott Place ranks 55 on food nearby and 5 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. Prescott Place is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 290 homes on file, 15 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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Prescott Place runs through Ocean Hill, 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).