Tapscott Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Tapscott Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 69, 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 Tapscott Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and transit (74). Street crime (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Tapscott Street, with 165 reports. The whole 311 file on Tapscott Street holds 437 reports, and residential noise is 38% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 53 reports, and paint and plaster with 32. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Tapscott Street carries roughly 92 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 81 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 17 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Tapscott Street is pests, at 66 violations. Paint and lead follows at 51 violations, then doors at 50. The housing file lists 73 residential buildings on Tapscott Street holding 473 homes, with 40 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Tapscott Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 83, with housing at 11. Tapscott Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 33 and quietness at 12. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 73 and tree cover at 50. Tapscott Street ranks 74 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 473 homes on file, 12 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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