Van Buren Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Van Buren Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, 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 Van Buren Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (54) and food nearby (72). Cleanliness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Van Buren Street, with 160 reports, and cleanliness ranks 20 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 609 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 112 reports, then heat and hot water at 106. In all, 71 distinct 311 categories are represented on Van Buren Street. The 311 file works out to about 58 reports for every 100 homes on Van Buren Street.
The HPD file on Van Buren Street carries 66 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Van Buren Street, 78 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 61 more, and plumbing for 25. City housing records put 1,052 homes in 321 residential buildings on Van Buren Street, 89 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 31 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Van Buren Street ranks 53 on infrastructure and 25 on traffic safety. That 25 on traffic safety puts Van Buren Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 38 on the same scale, with housing at 26. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 71 and transit at 58. Van Buren Street ranks 72 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 54.
About 14% of the 1,052 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 150 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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Van Buren Street runs through Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).