Sherman Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Sherman Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Sherman Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and transit (65). Cleanliness (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Sherman Street, with 25 reports, and cleanliness ranks 25 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 77 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name illegal parking. Damaged tree is the next most-filed at 18 reports, then missed collection at 14. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sherman Street. Set against the 237 homes on file, that is about 32 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Sherman Street. The housing file lists 123 residential buildings on Sherman Street holding 237 homes, with 23 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Sherman Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 86, with parking at 44. That 44 on parking puts Sherman Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 50 and infrastructure at 49. Against every street in the city, Sherman Street ranks 65 on tree cover and 45 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
Of the 237 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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