Sands Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Sands Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, 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 Sands Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (70) and transit (81); quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Sands Street, with 2,485 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. HPD has cited 31 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, infrastructure ranks 70 among built-up residential streets. About 42% of the 1,167 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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