Rodney Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Rodney Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Rodney Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (72) and transit (95). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Rodney Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Rodney Street have injured 26 people, and traffic safety ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 96 reports. Across every category, 187 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 51% of them name illegal parking. Encampment is the next most-filed at 73 reports, then general construction and plumbing at 26. The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 257 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
Rodney Street carries 6 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Rodney Street is bed bugs, at 43 violations. Pests follows at 35 violations. The housing file lists 57 residential buildings on Rodney Street holding 257 homes, with 36 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.5 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 46, with cleanliness at 12. That 12 on cleanliness puts Rodney Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 42 on the same scale, with housing at 34. Against every street in the city, Rodney Street ranks 93 on food nearby and 68 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Rodney Street is quietness, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 257 homes on file, 46 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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