Tehama Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Tehama Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, 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 Tehama Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (73) and transit (78). Housing (9) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Tehama Street, with 104 reports. The whole 311 file on Tehama Street holds 355 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 69 reports, then blocked driveway at 22. Reports on Tehama Street span 37 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 110 reports for every 100 homes on Tehama Street.

Inspectors have written 33 Class C violations on Tehama 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 37 violations on file. 2005 2007 remove accounts for 24 more, and bed bugs for 22. The housing file lists 64 residential buildings on Tehama Street holding 322 homes, with 39 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5 homes each.

Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 31 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 11. An 11 on parking places Tehama Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 28 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 22. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and tree cover at 54. Tehama Street ranks 78 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Tehama Street is scored inside.

Traffic safety is where Tehama Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 73.

25% of the 322 homes recorded on Tehama Street are rent-stabilized, 83 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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