Varet Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Varet Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Varet Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and food nearby (82). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise leads the 311 file on Varet Street, with 133 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Across every category, 196 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 68% of them name commercial noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (88 reports) and residential noise (69). Reports on Varet Street span 36 distinct 311 categories. About 321 reports per 100 homes sit on Varet Street, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Varet Street. 9 residential buildings on Varet Street hold the 61 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Varet Street holds about 6.8 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 75 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 4. A 4 on cleanliness places Varet Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 30 on the same scale, with parking at 17. Transit ranks 76 and tree cover 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Varet Street, at 82. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Varet Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Varet Street is infrastructure, at 80.
The housing file puts 36% of the 61 homes on Varet Street in rent stabilization, 22 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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Varet Street runs through East Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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