Smith Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Smith Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Smith Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (88) and food nearby (87). Traffic safety (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Smith Street. Reported crashes here have injured 126 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 27 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Smith Street, with 365 reports. Across every category, 813 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. For hire vehicle complaint follows with 134 reports, and commercial noise with 58. The file runs across 88 distinct 311 categories in all. About 94 reports per 100 homes sit on Smith Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Smith Street carries 9 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Smith Street, 29 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 19 more. The housing file lists 203 residential buildings on Smith Street holding 866 homes, with 19 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Smith Street ranks 85 on quietness and 49 on cleanliness. Smith Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts parking at 77 and infrastructure at 66 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 78 and tree cover 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. Smith Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Housing is where Smith Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 86.
The housing file puts 12% of the 866 homes on Smith Street in rent stabilization, 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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Smith Street runs through Carroll Gardens and DUMBO, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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