S 2 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does S 2 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 S 2 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and food nearby (96). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on South 2 Street, with 254 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on South 2 Street holds 1,186 reports, and residential noise is 21% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 156 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 76. The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, South 2 Street carries roughly 81 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on South 2 Street carries 129 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on South 2 Street is pests, at 129 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (101 violations) and doors (62). The housing file lists 145 residential buildings on South 2 Street holding 1,460 homes, with 82 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 10 homes each.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 70 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 10. A 10 on cleanliness places South 2 Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 60 and housing at 24 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, South 2 Street ranks 89 on transit and 79 on tree cover. South 2 Street ranks 96 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
About 39% of the 1,460 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 574 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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