Skillman Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Skillman Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 68, 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 Skillman Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and food nearby (73). Traffic safety (45) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Skillman Street name illegal parking than any other category, 34 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 169 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 15 reports, then rodent at 11. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Skillman Street. About 19 reports per 100 homes sit on Skillman Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 18 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Skillman Street is pests, at 39 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 34 more. 120 residential buildings on Skillman Street hold the 899 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Skillman Street holds about 7.5 homes.
Reported crashes on Skillman Street have injured 15 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 90, with housing at 46. Skillman Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 89 and cleanliness at 47 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Skillman Street ranks 67 on transit and 63 on tree cover. Skillman Street ranks 73 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Skillman Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Skillman Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 899 homes on file, 181 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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Skillman Street runs through Bed-Stuy, 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).