Royce Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Royce Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Royce Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and tree cover (85). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Royce Street, with 21 reports. Across every category, 129 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 11 reports. In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on Royce Street. The 311 file works out to about 28 reports for every 100 homes on Royce Street.
Royce Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Royce Street is pests, at 46 violations. Bed bugs follows at 46 violations. The housing file lists 133 residential buildings on Royce Street holding 462 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.5 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Royce Street ranks 93 on cleanliness and 45 on housing. Royce Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Traffic safety ranks 80 on the same scale, with parking at 51. Against every street in the city, Royce Street ranks 18 on food nearby and 1 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Royce Street, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is where Royce Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 94.
Of the 462 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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