Street James Place, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Street James Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Street James Place in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (70) and transit (89). Cleanliness (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Street James Place, with 100 reports, and cleanliness ranks 31 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 463 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 35 reports, and residential noise with 28. The file runs across 51 distinct 311 categories in all. About 45 reports per 100 homes sit on Street James Place, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 48 Class C violations on Street James Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Street James Place, 58 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 56 violations, then paint and lead at 14. The housing file lists 187 residential buildings on Street James Place holding 1,024 homes, with 90 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on Street James Place have injured 15 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 59, with housing at 36. That 36 on housing puts Street James Place in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 51 on the same scale, with parking at 43. Food nearby ranks 84 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Street James Place ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is where Street James Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 70.
About 9% of the 1,024 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 91 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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