Quay Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Quay Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Quay Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and food nearby (84). Tree cover (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 16 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Quay Street carries roughly 23 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Quay Street carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 3 residential buildings on Quay Street hold the 218 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 73 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 81 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 30. Quay Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts parking at 50 and traffic safety at 42 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Quay Street ranks 50 on transit and 7 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. Quay Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Quay Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 83.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 218 on Quay Street.
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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