Suydam Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Suydam Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Suydam Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (64) and food nearby (91). Quietness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Suydam Street, with 138 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 701 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (106 reports) and illegal parking (89). The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 874 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 84 Class C violations on Suydam Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 84 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 57 violations, then paint and lead at 34. The housing file lists 225 residential buildings on Suydam Street holding 874 homes, with 127 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.9 homes each.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on Suydam Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 56 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 20. A 20 on cleanliness places Suydam Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 37 and housing at 31. The citywide frame puts transit at 84 and tree cover at 84. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. Suydam Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Suydam Street is infrastructure, at 64.
The housing file puts 2% of the 874 homes on Suydam Street in rent stabilization, 18 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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Suydam Street runs through Bushwick, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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