State Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does State Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 95, 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 State Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (68) and transit (96). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on State Street name illegal parking than any other category, 1,303 of them, and parking ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,649 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 79% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 55 reports, then noise at 53. The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,414 homes on file, that is about 117 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 27 Class C violations on State Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on State Street is bed bugs, at 43 violations. Pests follows at 35 violations, then doors at 12. 280 residential buildings on State Street hold the 1,414 homes on file, 82 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on State Street have injured 12 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, quietness comes in at 57, with cleanliness at 46. A 46 on cleanliness places State Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 57 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 50. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 95 and tree cover at 90. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on State Street, at 96. State Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where State Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 1,414 homes on file, 154 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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