Sandford Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Sandford Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Sandford Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and transit (70). Tree cover (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Sandford Street name illegal parking than any other category, 15 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 44% of the 34 reports on file here. Sidewalk condition follows with 10 reports. In all, 19 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sandford Street. Divided by the homes on file, Sandford Street carries roughly 23 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Sandford Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 6 residential buildings and 146 homes on Sandford Street, with 0 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 24 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 68 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 34. That 34 on traffic safety puts Sandford Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 63 and quietness at 45 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 67 and tree cover 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 70. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Sandford Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 146 homes on file, 14 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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Sandford Street runs through Bed-Stuy, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).