S 4 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does S 4 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 4 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (54) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on South 4 Street, with 191 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on South 4 Street holds 1,159 reports, and residential noise is 16% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 163 reports, then illegal parking at 100. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, South 4 Street carries roughly 90 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 97 Class C violations on South 4 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on South 4 Street is pests, at 80 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (70 violations) and bed bugs (50). 157 residential buildings on South 4 Street hold the 1,294 homes on file, 85 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on South 4 Street holds about 8.2 homes.
Since 2021, 45 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 52 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 13. A 13 on quietness places South 4 Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 37 and traffic safety at 29 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 80 and tree cover 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. 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 54.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 1,294 homes on file, 288 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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