Sheepshead Bay Road, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Sheepshead Bay Road 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 74, 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 Sheepshead Bay Road in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (89) and food nearby (80). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Sheepshead Bay Road, with 200 reports, and parking ranks 11 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 798 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to commercial noise (135 reports) and consumer complaint (64). Reports on Sheepshead Bay Road span 64 distinct 311 categories. About 270 reports per 100 homes sit on Sheepshead Bay Road, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Sheepshead Bay Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 296 homes in 64 residential buildings on Sheepshead Bay Road, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.6 homes to a building.
NYPD records 32 people injured in crashes on Sheepshead Bay Road since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Sheepshead Bay Road ranks 28 on cleanliness and 12 on quietness. A 12 on quietness places Sheepshead Bay Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 20 and infrastructure at 17 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Sheepshead Bay Road ranks 78 on transit and 53 on tree cover. Sheepshead Bay Road ranks 80 on food nearby, 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 Sheepshead Bay Road is housing, at 89.
6% of the 296 homes recorded on Sheepshead Bay Road are rent-stabilized, 19 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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