Schaefer Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Schaefer Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, 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 Schaefer Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (56) and transit (78). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Schaefer Street, with 176 reports. The whole 311 file on Schaefer Street holds 947 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. Residential noise follows with 176 reports, and commercial noise with 148. Reports on Schaefer Street span 63 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 108 reports for every 100 homes on Schaefer Street.
Schaefer Street carries 82 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 71 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (61 violations) and structure (32). 211 residential buildings on Schaefer Street hold the 878 homes on file, 132 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Schaefer Street holds about 4.2 homes.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Schaefer Street ranks 34 on parking and 17 on housing. Schaefer Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 32 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 25. Against every street in the city, Schaefer Street ranks 75 on tree cover and 71 on food nearby. Schaefer Street ranks 78 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Schaefer Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 56.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 878 on Schaefer Street.
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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Schaefer Street runs through Bushwick, 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).