Vermont Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Vermont Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, 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 Vermont Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (38) and tree cover (92). Street crime (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Vermont Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 177 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 17% of the 1,025 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (136 reports) and blocked driveway (98). The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. About 108 reports per 100 homes sit on Vermont Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 165 Class C violations on Vermont Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 17 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Vermont Street, 159 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 96 violations, then bed bugs at 84. PLUTO counts 365 residential buildings and 947 homes on Vermont Street, with 112 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Vermont Street holds about 2.6 homes.
NYPD records 37 people injured in crashes on Vermont Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 32, with housing at 9. That 9 on housing puts Vermont Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 32 and traffic safety at 18. Transit ranks 71 and food nearby 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Vermont Street ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Vermont Street is cleanliness, at 38.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 947 homes on file, 140 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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