S Oxford Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does S Oxford Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts S Oxford Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (87) and transit (97). Housing (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on South Oxford Street, with 138 reports. The whole 311 file on South Oxford Street holds 244 reports, and illegal parking is 57% of it. Maintenance or facility follows with 27 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 14. Reports on South Oxford Street span 42 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 644 homes on file, that is about 38 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on South Oxford Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on South Oxford Street, 49 violations of it. Pests accounts for 30 more. The housing file lists 132 residential buildings on South Oxford Street holding 644 homes, with 84 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.9 homes each.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on South Oxford Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, South Oxford Street ranks 53 on cleanliness and 46 on parking. That 46 on parking puts South Oxford Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 51 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 46. Food nearby ranks 93 and tree cover 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on South Oxford Street, at 97. South Oxford Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on South Oxford Street is quietness, at 79.
The housing file puts 12% of the 644 homes on South Oxford Street in rent stabilization, 79 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 Oxford Street runs through Fort Greene, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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