S 3 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does S 3 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 3 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (67) and food nearby (95). Quietness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on South 3 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 278 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on South 3 Street holds 1,637 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 17% of it. Residential noise follows with 197 reports, and heat and hot water with 171. The file runs across 86 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,598 homes on file, that is about 102 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on South 3 Street carries 212 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on South 3 Street, 181 violations of it. Pests accounts for 134 more, and plumbing for 95. City housing records put 1,598 homes in 138 residential buildings on South 3 Street, 86 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 54, with cleanliness at 9. That 9 on cleanliness puts South 3 Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 50 on the same scale, with housing at 11. Transit ranks 90 and tree cover 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on South 3 Street, at 95. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band South 3 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where South 3 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 55.
About 39% of the 1,598 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 620 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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S 3 Street runs through Williamsburg, 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).