Van Dam Street, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
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). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Van Dam Street, with 13 reports. Across every category, 30 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Van Dam Street span 20 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Van Dam Street carries roughly 88 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Van Dam Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 15 residential buildings on Van Dam Street hold the 34 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among quiet residential streets, Van Dam Street ranks 30 on parking and 2 on cleanliness. A 2 on cleanliness places Van Dam Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Quietness ranks 10 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 9. Against every street in the city, Van Dam Street ranks 31 on food nearby and 24 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Van Dam Street, at 40. Van Dam Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 34 on Van Dam Street.
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 Dam Street runs through Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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