Strauss Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Strauss Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 62, 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 Strauss Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (71) and tree cover (68). Street crime (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Strauss Street name residential noise than any other category, 85 of them. Residential noise accounts for 15% of the 586 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (48 reports) and unsanitary condition (30). The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. About 96 reports per 100 homes sit on Strauss Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 101 Class C violations on Strauss Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 17 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Strauss Street, 98 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 72 more, and paint and lead for 46. City housing records put 608 homes in 246 residential buildings on Strauss Street, 98 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Strauss Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Strauss Street ranks 58 on infrastructure and 10 on housing. Strauss Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Cleanliness ranks 42 on the same scale, with quietness at 16. Against every street in the city, Strauss Street ranks 67 on transit and 48 on food nearby. Strauss Street ranks 68 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Strauss Street is parking, at 71.
About 1% of the 608 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 9 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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