Prospect Park W, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Prospect Park W in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Prospect Park W in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (86) and tree cover (94). Traffic safety (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Prospect Park W. 72 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 25 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Prospect Park W is led by maintenance or facility, with 443 reports. Maintenance or facility accounts for 45% of the 984 reports on file here. Animal in a park is the next most-filed at 332 reports, then illegal parking at 248. In all, 90 distinct 311 categories are represented on Prospect Park W. The 311 file works out to about 72 reports for every 100 homes on Prospect Park W.
The HPD file on Prospect Park W carries 66 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Prospect Park W is pests, at 58 violations. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (39 violations) and bed bugs (34). PLUTO counts 152 residential buildings and 1,359 homes on Prospect Park W, with 53 walk-ups and 12 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 8.9 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Prospect Park W ranks 55 on quietness and 46 on housing. That 46 on housing puts Prospect Park W in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 55 and parking at 54 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Prospect Park W ranks 76 on transit and 71 on food nearby. Prospect Park W ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 57.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 1,359 homes on file, 194 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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Prospect Park W runs through Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, 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).