Sutton Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Sutton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Sutton Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (72) and food nearby (65). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Sutton Street name illegal parking than any other category, 67 of them. The whole 311 file on Sutton Street holds 203 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (23 reports) and commercial noise (16). Reports on Sutton Street span 36 distinct 311 categories. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on Sutton Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 18 Class C violations on Sutton Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Sutton Street, 27 violations of it. Pests follows at 22 violations. City housing records put 271 homes in 61 residential buildings on Sutton Street, 53 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.4 homes each.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 36, with parking at 26. A 26 on parking places Sutton Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 31 and quietness at 28. Tree cover ranks 51 and transit 33, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Sutton Street, at 65. Sutton Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Sutton Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 271 homes on file, 8 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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