Thames Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Thames Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Thames Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (82) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Thames Street, with 16 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 106 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name residential noise. Vehicle noise follows with 12 reports, and illegal parking with 11. The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 145 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Thames Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 13 residential buildings and 145 homes on Thames Street, with 8 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 59, with quietness at 16. That 16 on quietness puts Thames Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 42 on the same scale, with housing at 19. Against every street in the city, Thames Street ranks 73 on transit and 16 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Thames Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Thames Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 82.
About 23% of the 145 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 34 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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