Van Dam Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Van Dam Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Van Dam Street in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (74) and tree cover (40); cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Van Dam Street, with 13 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among quiet residential streets. Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, housing ranks 74 among quiet residential streets. None of the 34 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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