Sterling Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Sterling Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (71) and transit (88). Quietness (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Sterling Street, with 130 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 434 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (79 reports) and heat and hot water (75). In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sterling Street. Set against the 826 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 43 Class C violations on Sterling Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 36 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 19 more, and heat and hot water for 14. PLUTO counts 207 residential buildings and 826 homes on Sterling Street, with 14 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Sterling Street holds about 4 homes.
Reported crashes on Sterling Street have injured 9 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Sterling Street ranks 57 on traffic safety and 29 on housing. A 29 on housing places Sterling Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 52 and infrastructure at 40. Against every street in the city, Sterling Street ranks 80 on food nearby and 78 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Sterling Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 71.
About 57% of the 826 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 468 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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