Russell Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Russell Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 59, 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 Russell Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (75) and food nearby (71). Infrastructure (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Russell Street name illegal parking than any other category, 101 of them. The whole 311 file on Russell Street holds 204 reports, and illegal parking is 50% of it. Noise is the next most-filed at 24 reports, then lead at 13. In all, 58 distinct 311 categories are represented on Russell Street. About 44 reports per 100 homes sit on Russell Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Russell Street, 46 violations of it. Pests accounts for 27 more, and doors for 13. City housing records put 465 homes in 121 residential buildings on Russell Street, 92 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.8 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 59, with cleanliness at 35. A 35 on cleanliness places Russell Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 46 on the same scale, with parking at 41. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 66 and transit at 49. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 60.
The housing file puts 4% of the 465 homes on Russell Street in rent stabilization, 18 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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