Shell Road, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Shell Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, 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 Shell Road in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (85) and transit (79). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Shell Road name illegal parking than any other category, 163 of them, and parking ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Shell Road holds 494 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 38 reports, and street condition with 32. Reports on Shell Road span 32 distinct 311 categories. About 123 reports per 100 homes sit on Shell Road, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 2 Class C violations on Shell Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 6 residential buildings and 403 homes on Shell Road, with 2 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 67 homes each.
Reported crashes on Shell Road have injured 50 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 84, with traffic safety at 3. Shell Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 60 and infrastructure at 7. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 55 and food nearby at 48. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Shell Road, at 79. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Shell Road is scored inside.
Quietness is where Shell Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 85.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 403 on Shell Road.
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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