Rugby Road, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Rugby Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Rugby Road in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (56) and tree cover (90). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Rugby Road, with 119 reports. Across every category, 833 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 93 reports, and paint and plaster with 41. Reports on Rugby Road span 55 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Rugby Road carries roughly 156 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 172 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 32 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Rugby Road is pests, at 133 violations. Paint and lead follows at 130 violations, then structure at 66. City housing records put 534 homes in 196 residential buildings on Rugby Road, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Rugby Road ranks 49 on infrastructure and 17 on parking. Rugby Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Cleanliness ranks 27 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 24. The citywide frame puts transit at 81 and food nearby at 80. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Rugby Road is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Rugby Road is quietness, at 56.
Rent stabilization covers about 43% of the 534 homes on file, 228 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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