S 5 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does S 5 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 5 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (75) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on South 5 Street, with 85 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on South 5 Street holds 596 reports, and residential noise is 14% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 70 reports, and graffiti with 34. Reports on South 5 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 65 reports for every 100 homes on South 5 Street.
Inspectors have written 56 Class C violations on South 5 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on South 5 Street, 61 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 30 more, and paint and lead for 22. 102 residential buildings on South 5 Street hold the 922 homes on file, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on South 5 Street holds about 9 homes.
Reported crashes on South 5 Street have injured 50 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 37, with traffic safety at 11. South 5 Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 23 and quietness at 20 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 84 and tree cover 76, 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 5 Street, at 93. South 5 Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is where South 5 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 75.
26% of the 922 homes recorded on South 5 Street are rent-stabilized, 239 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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