Spencer Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Spencer Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Spencer Place in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and transit (93). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Dirty condition is the most-filed complaint on Spencer Place, with 52 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 190 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name dirty condition. After that the file runs to residential noise (31 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (28). Reports on Spencer Place span 36 distinct 311 categories. About 221 reports per 100 homes sit on Spencer Place, counting every category.
HPD has cited 8 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Spencer Place is paint and lead, at 26 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (21 violations) and structure (19). City housing records put 86 homes in 17 residential buildings on Spencer Place, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Spencer Place holds about 5.1 homes.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Spencer Place since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Spencer Place ranks 87 on traffic safety and 2 on housing. Spencer Place sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on housing. Parking ranks 20 on the same scale, with quietness at 5. Against every street in the city, Spencer Place ranks 89 on food nearby and 18 on tree cover. Spencer Place ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Spencer Place is infrastructure, at 97.
The housing file puts 28% of the 86 homes on Spencer Place in rent stabilization, 22 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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