Scholes Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Scholes Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Scholes Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (38) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Scholes Street, with 155 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 635 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 102 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 70. In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on Scholes Street. About 116 reports per 100 homes sit on Scholes Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Scholes Street carries 28 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Scholes Street, 35 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (23 violations) and paint and lead (10). The housing file lists 84 residential buildings on Scholes Street holding 547 homes, with 49 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 34 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 11. Scholes Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts parking at 22 and infrastructure at 14 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 77 and tree cover 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Scholes Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Scholes Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Scholes Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 38.
47% of the 547 homes recorded on Scholes Street are rent-stabilized, 253 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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Scholes Street runs through East Williamsburg, 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).