Sterling Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Sterling Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Sterling Place in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (50) and tree cover (97). Housing (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Sterling Place, with 655 reports. The whole 311 file on Sterling Place holds 4,098 reports, and heat and hot water is 16% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 473 reports, then illegal parking at 457. Reports on Sterling Place span 95 distinct 311 categories. About 94 reports per 100 homes sit on Sterling Place, counting every category.
Sterling Place carries 712 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Sterling Place is pests, at 503 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (405 violations) and doors (232). City housing records put 4,360 homes in 760 residential buildings on Sterling Place, 346 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 13 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.7 homes each.
NYPD records 86 people injured in crashes on Sterling Place since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 39 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 14. A 14 on quietness places Sterling Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 38 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 84 and transit at 76. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. Sterling Place is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 50.
26% of the 4,360 homes recorded on Sterling Place are rent-stabilized, 1,149 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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