Ryerson Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Ryerson Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 66, 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 Ryerson Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and food nearby (87). Housing (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Rodent leads the 311 file on Ryerson Street, with 18 reports. Across every category, 134 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name rodent. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 16 reports, and illegal parking with 15. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ryerson Street. Set against the 578 homes on file, that is about 23 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 20 Class C violations on Ryerson Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ryerson Street is bed bugs, at 22 violations. Pests follows at 18 violations, then paint and lead at 14. The housing file lists 58 residential buildings on Ryerson Street holding 578 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 10 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 93 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 42. That 42 on cleanliness puts Ryerson Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 90 and parking at 88 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Ryerson Street ranks 64 on transit and 38 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Ryerson Street, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ryerson Street is quietness, at 93.
About 1% of the 578 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 8 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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Ryerson Street runs through Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).