Sullivan Street, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Sullivan Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Sullivan Street in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (42) and food nearby (77). Quietness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Sullivan Street name illegal parking than any other category, 25 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 37% of the 68 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 22 reports, then day care at 18. Reports on Sullivan Street span 26 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Sullivan Street carries roughly 88 reports per 100 of them.
Sullivan Street carries 4 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. The housing file lists 24 residential buildings on Sullivan Street holding 77 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 28 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 18. Sullivan Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on housing. The card also puts traffic safety at 25 and cleanliness at 20 among quiet residential streets. Tree cover ranks 43 and transit 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Sullivan Street ranks 77 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 42.
The housing file puts 52% of the 77 homes on Sullivan Street in rent stabilization, 38 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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Sullivan Street runs through Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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