S 6 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does S 6 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts S 6 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and food nearby (91). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Graffiti is the most-filed complaint on South 6 Street, with 23 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 90 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name graffiti. Behind it sits commercial noise, with 17 reports. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on South 6 Street. Set against the 125 homes on file, that is about 72 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on South 6 Street. The housing file lists 26 residential buildings on South 6 Street holding 125 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.8 homes each.
Among quiet residential streets, South 6 Street ranks 64 on parking and 33 on quietness. That 33 on quietness puts South 6 Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Housing ranks 54 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 37. The citywide frame puts transit at 55 and tree cover at 29. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on South 6 Street, at 91. South 6 Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on South 6 Street is infrastructure, at 83.
The housing file puts 1% of the 125 homes on South 6 Street in rent stabilization, 1 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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