Ross Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Ross Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Ross Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (88) and transit (91). Housing (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Ross Street, with 17 reports. The whole 311 file on Ross Street holds 186 reports, and heat and hot water is 9% of it. Noise follows with 16 reports, and general construction and plumbing with 14. In all, 44 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ross Street. Set against the 531 homes on file, that is about 35 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Ross Street carries 5 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 Ross Street, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (48 violations) and paint and lead (14). City housing records put 531 homes in 67 residential buildings on Ross Street, 42 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Ross Street holds about 7.9 homes.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Ross Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 81 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 56. A 56 on infrastructure places Ross Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 61 and cleanliness at 56 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 75 and tree cover 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Ross Street ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
About 16% of the 531 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 86 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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Ross Street runs through South Williamsburg, 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).