Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Van Brunt Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Van Brunt Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (84) and tree cover (75). Transit (20) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Van Brunt Street, with 126 reports. Across every category, 395 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (51 reports) and general construction and plumbing (38). Reports on Van Brunt Street span 68 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 88 reports for every 100 homes on Van Brunt Street.
The HPD file on Van Brunt Street carries 8 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Van Brunt Street, 30 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 25 more. PLUTO counts 127 residential buildings and 447 homes on Van Brunt Street, with 41 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Van Brunt Street holds about 3.5 homes.
Reported crashes on Van Brunt Street have injured 30 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 76 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 37. That 37 on infrastructure puts Van Brunt Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 66 and traffic safety at 43 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Van Brunt Street ranks 75 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
About 10% of the 447 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 44 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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