Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 93, 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 Schermerhorn Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (69) and transit (98). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Schermerhorn Street, with 711 reports, and parking ranks 3 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,090 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 65% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 70 reports, and noise with 53. Reports on Schermerhorn Street span 78 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Schermerhorn Street carries roughly 114 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Schermerhorn Street carries 15 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Schermerhorn Street, 27 violations of it. Behind it the file holds structure (16 violations) and doors (14). The housing file lists 43 residential buildings on Schermerhorn Street holding 959 homes, with 16 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 22 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 27 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Schermerhorn Street ranks 62 on housing and 24 on infrastructure. Schermerhorn Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 29 and traffic safety at 28 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Schermerhorn Street ranks 98 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Schermerhorn Street is cleanliness, at 69.
Rent stabilization covers about 21% of the 959 homes on file, 199 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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