Richards Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Richards Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Richards Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (86) and food nearby (71). Transit (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Richards Street, with 31 reports. The whole 311 file on Richards Street holds 106 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 29% of it. Residential noise follows with 21 reports, and illegal parking with 17. In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on Richards Street. The 311 file works out to about 26 reports for every 100 homes on Richards Street.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Richards Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 20 residential buildings on Richards Street hold the 411 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Richards Street holds about 21 homes.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Richards Street ranks 82 on housing and 33 on traffic safety. Richards Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 81 and quietness at 48. Tree cover ranks 58 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Richards Street ranks 71 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Richards Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 411 homes on file, 17 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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