Senator Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Senator Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Senator Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and food nearby (86). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Senator Street name illegal parking than any other category, 275 of them, and parking ranks 6 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 482 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 57% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 72 reports, and residential noise with 23. Reports on Senator Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 83 reports for every 100 homes on Senator Street.
The HPD file on Senator Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Senator Street, 17 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 12 violations. 207 residential buildings on Senator Street hold the 584 homes on file, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.8 homes each.
NYPD records 16 people injured in crashes on Senator Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Senator Street ranks 78 on quietness and 25 on traffic safety. That 25 on traffic safety puts Senator Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 39 and infrastructure at 34. The citywide frame puts transit at 77 and tree cover at 63. Senator Street ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
About 18% of the 584 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 103 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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