Vanderbilt Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Vanderbilt Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Vanderbilt Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (89) and transit (75). Infrastructure (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Vanderbilt Street name illegal parking than any other category, 52 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 42% of the 123 reports on file here. Street condition follows with 23 reports, and general construction and plumbing with 15. The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 375 homes on file, that is about 33 reports per 100 homes.
Vanderbilt Street carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 375 homes in 124 residential buildings on Vanderbilt Street, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 70 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 43. A 43 on parking places Vanderbilt Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 66 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 60. Tree cover ranks 61 and food nearby 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Vanderbilt Street ranks 75 on transit, 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 89.
None of the 375 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Vanderbilt Street runs through Windsor Terrace, 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).