Quincy Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Quincy Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Quincy Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (50) and tree cover (90). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Quincy Street, with 246 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Quincy Street holds 1,911 reports, and residential noise is 13% of it. Illegal parking follows with 191 reports, and heat and hot water with 173. In all, 85 distinct 311 categories are represented on Quincy Street. Divided by the homes on file, Quincy Street carries roughly 75 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 169 Class C violations on Quincy Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 268 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 166 more, and paint and lead for 156. City housing records put 2,532 homes in 615 residential buildings on Quincy Street, 240 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 33 people injured in crashes on Quincy Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 49, with quietness at 19. That 19 on quietness puts Quincy Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 28 and housing at 21. Against every street in the city, Quincy Street ranks 76 on food nearby and 75 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Quincy Street is parking, at 50.
Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 2,532 homes on file, 613 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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Quincy Street runs through Bed-Stuy, 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).