President Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does President Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 President Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (63) and tree cover (99). Quietness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on President Street, with 355 reports. Across every category, 3,920 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 9% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 297 reports, then residential noise at 296. The file runs across 93 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, President Street carries roughly 75 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 435 Class C violations on President Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 428 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (340 violations) and structure (204). PLUTO counts 857 residential buildings and 5,220 homes on President Street, with 339 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 58 people injured in crashes on President Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 56 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 20. A 20 on housing places President Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 53 and cleanliness at 46. Against every street in the city, President Street ranks 84 on food nearby and 81 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on President Street is traffic safety, at 59.
The housing file puts 24% of the 5,220 homes on President Street in rent stabilization, 1,229 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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