Richardson Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Richardson Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 64, 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 Richardson Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and food nearby (82). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Richardson Street, with 181 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 261 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 69% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (37 reports) and graffiti (26). The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 544 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on Richardson Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 14 violations on file. 72 residential buildings on Richardson Street hold the 544 homes on file, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Richardson Street holds about 7.6 homes.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 68, with parking at 36. A 36 on parking places Richardson Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 59 and quietness at 44. Against every street in the city, Richardson Street ranks 59 on tree cover and 56 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Richardson Street, at 82. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Richardson Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Richardson Street is infrastructure, at 78.
About 37% of the 544 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 198 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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