Van Sicklen Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Van Sicklen Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 74, 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 Sicklen Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and transit (81). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Van Sicklen Street, with 95 reports, and parking ranks 11 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 344 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 51 reports, and residential noise with 27. In all, 42 distinct 311 categories are represented on Van Sicklen Street. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on Van Sicklen Street, counting every category.
Van Sicklen Street carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Van Sicklen Street, 17 violations of it. Pests accounts for 12 more. The housing file lists 210 residential buildings on Van Sicklen Street holding 459 homes, with 41 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on Van Sicklen Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Van Sicklen Street ranks 65 on cleanliness and 16 on infrastructure. That 16 on infrastructure puts Van Sicklen Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 41 and quietness at 25 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 69 and tree cover 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Van Sicklen Street ranks 81 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 75.
4% of the 459 homes recorded on Van Sicklen Street are rent-stabilized, 20 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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