Prospect Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Prospect Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Prospect Place in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (50) and tree cover (99). Housing (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Prospect Place name illegal parking than any other category, 596 of them. The whole 311 file on Prospect Place holds 3,934 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (508 reports) and residential noise (507). Reports on Prospect Place span 104 distinct 311 categories. About 95 reports per 100 homes sit on Prospect Place, counting every category.
Prospect Place carries 533 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 380 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (285 violations) and bed bugs (199). PLUTO counts 751 residential buildings and 4,127 homes on Prospect Place, with 302 walk-ups and 21 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on Prospect Place have injured 64 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 48, with quietness at 16. A 16 on quietness places Prospect Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 39 and cleanliness at 18 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 84 and transit 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Prospect Place, at 99. Prospect Place is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is where Prospect Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 50.
27% of the 4,127 homes recorded on Prospect Place are rent-stabilized, 1,113 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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