Sapphire Street, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 21 out of 100. How does Sapphire Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 21 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 20, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Sapphire Street in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (64) and food nearby (39). Street crime (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Sapphire Street span 31 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Sapphire Street carries roughly 157 reports per 100 of them.
Sapphire Street carries 19 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Sapphire Street, 14 violations of it. City housing records put 54 homes in 23 residential buildings on Sapphire Street, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Sapphire Street holds about 2.3 homes.
Among quiet residential streets, Sapphire Street ranks 43 on infrastructure and 3 on housing. Sapphire Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on housing. The card also puts parking at 20 and quietness at 16 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 13 and tree cover 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 39. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Sapphire Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Sapphire Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 64.
Of the 54 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Sapphire Street runs through East New York & City Line and Howard Beach, 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).