Somers Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Somers Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Somers Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and transit (92). Housing (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Somers Street, with 65 reports. Across every category, 281 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Consumer complaint follows with 40 reports, and heat and hot water with 38. In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on Somers Street. The 311 file works out to about 66 reports for every 100 homes on Somers Street.
Inspectors have written 56 Class C violations on Somers Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Somers Street, 43 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 34 more, and doors for 19. City housing records put 424 homes in 112 residential buildings on Somers Street, 51 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Somers Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 75 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 44. Somers Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 46 and traffic safety at 46. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 67 and tree cover at 58. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Somers Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Somers Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 85.
The housing file puts 13% of the 424 homes on Somers Street in rent stabilization, 50 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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Somers Street runs through Ocean Hill, 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).