Sands Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Sands Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 42, 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 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (68) and transit (81). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Sands Street, with 2,485 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Heat and hot water follows with 191 reports, and illegal parking with 98. In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sands Street. About 121 reports per 100 homes sit on Sands Street, counting every category.
Sands Street carries 26 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Sands Street is pests, at 31 violations. Doors follows at 23 violations, then paint and lead at 22. PLUTO counts 3 residential buildings and 1,167 homes on Sands Street, with 0 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Sands Street holds about 389 homes.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on Sands Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Sands Street ranks 64 on cleanliness and 55 on traffic safety. Sands Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 63 and housing at 62. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 68 and tree cover at 19. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Sands Street, at 81. Sands Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
The housing file puts 42% of the 1,167 homes on Sands Street in rent stabilization, 491 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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