Remsen Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does Remsen Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, 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 Remsen Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and transit (95). Quietness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Remsen Street, with 162 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Remsen Street holds 366 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 44% of it. Vehicle noise is the next most-filed at 82 reports, then illegal parking at 41. Reports on Remsen Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. About 44 reports per 100 homes sit on Remsen Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Remsen Street carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Remsen Street, 17 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 10 violations. 82 residential buildings on Remsen Street hold the 836 homes on file, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Remsen Street holds about 10 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Remsen Street ranks 86 on cleanliness and 63 on housing. A 63 on housing places Remsen Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 82 and infrastructure at 79 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 91 and tree cover 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. Remsen Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Remsen Street is traffic safety, at 92.
The housing file puts 17% of the 836 homes on Remsen Street in rent stabilization, 146 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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Remsen Street runs through Brooklyn Heights, 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).