Sullivan Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Sullivan Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.

Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 Sullivan Place in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (67) and transit (92). Housing (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Sullivan Place name illegal parking than any other category, 229 of them. Across every category, 751 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (107 reports) and residential noise (69). The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 513 homes on file, that is about 146 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on Sullivan Place carries 194 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 38 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Sullivan Place, 70 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (61 violations) and doors (50). City housing records put 513 homes in 86 residential buildings on Sullivan Place, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Sullivan Place holds about 6 homes.

Among built-up residential streets, Sullivan Place ranks 45 on infrastructure and 12 on parking. Sullivan Place sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 36 and quietness at 16. Against every street in the city, Sullivan Place ranks 69 on food nearby and 51 on tree cover. Sullivan Place ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Sullivan Place is scored inside.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.

59% of the 513 homes recorded on Sullivan Place are rent-stabilized, 303 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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