Rutledge Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Rutledge Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.

Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, 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 Rutledge Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (97) and transit (79). Infrastructure (17) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Rutledge Street name illegal parking than any other category, 24 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 15% of the 165 reports on file here. Street condition follows with 16 reports, and missed collection with 13. Reports on Rutledge Street span 32 distinct 311 categories. About 43 reports per 100 homes sit on Rutledge Street, counting every category.

HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 55 violations on file. Pests accounts for 44 more. 135 residential buildings on Rutledge Street hold the 386 homes on file, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.

NYPD records 9 people injured in crashes on Rutledge Street since 2021.

Among built-up residential streets, Rutledge Street ranks 65 on parking and 32 on housing. Rutledge Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 64 and traffic safety at 37. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 70 and food nearby at 57. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Rutledge Street is quietness, at 97.

The housing file puts 2% of the 386 homes on Rutledge Street in rent stabilization, 9 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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