Starr Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Starr Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Starr Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (36) and food nearby (94). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Starr Street, with 116 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,007 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 12% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Vehicle noise is the next most-filed at 85 reports, then residential noise at 84. In all, 81 distinct 311 categories are represented on Starr Street. Divided by the homes on file, Starr Street carries roughly 172 reports per 100 of them.
Starr Street carries 137 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 82 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 61 violations, then doors at 49. PLUTO counts 101 residential buildings and 584 homes on Starr Street, with 85 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.8 homes each.
Reported crashes on Starr Street have injured 16 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Starr Street ranks 34 on traffic safety and 7 on housing. That 7 on housing puts Starr Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 25 and cleanliness at 11 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 75 and transit 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Starr Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 36.
Rent stabilization covers about 16% of the 584 homes on file, 92 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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Starr Street runs through Bushwick, 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).