Spencer Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Spencer Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, 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 Spencer Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (56) and transit (71). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Spencer Street, with 296 reports, and parking ranks 6 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 470 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 63% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 33 reports, then general construction and plumbing at 28. The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. About 112 reports per 100 homes sit on Spencer Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 24 Class C violations on Spencer Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Spencer Street is pests, at 16 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 13 more. 46 residential buildings on Spencer Street hold the 418 homes on file, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Spencer Street holds about 9.1 homes.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 56, with housing at 13. Spencer Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 47 and infrastructure at 37. Food nearby ranks 68 and tree cover 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. Spencer Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Quietness is where Spencer Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 56.
15% of the 418 homes recorded on Spencer Street are rent-stabilized, 63 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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