S 8 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does S 8 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, 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 8 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (76) and food nearby (88). Infrastructure (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on South 8 Street, with 18 reports. The whole 311 file on South 8 Street holds 344 reports, and illegal parking is 5% of it. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (18 reports) and graffiti (17). In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on South 8 Street. Divided by the homes on file, South 8 Street carries roughly 68 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on South 8 Street carries 29 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on South 8 Street is pests, at 42 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (39 violations) and bed bugs (20). The housing file lists 45 residential buildings on South 8 Street holding 508 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 64 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 20. That 20 on housing puts South 8 Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 39 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 23. The citywide frame puts transit at 63 and tree cover at 59. South 8 Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where South 8 Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 76.
About 30% of the 508 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 152 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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