Ruby Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Ruby Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Ruby Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and transit (49). Housing (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Ruby Street, with 23 reports. Across every category, 57 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 12 reports. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Ruby Street carries roughly 58 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Ruby Street carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 32 residential buildings on Ruby Street hold the 98 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.1 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 73, with cleanliness at 23. A 23 on cleanliness places Ruby Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 28 on the same scale, with parking at 26. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and tree cover at 46. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Ruby Street, at 49. Ruby Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Ruby Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 85.
37% of the 98 homes recorded on Ruby Street are rent-stabilized, 36 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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