W 1 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does W 1 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 1 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and tree cover (75). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 1 Street, with 151 reports, and parking ranks 13 among numbered streets. Across every category, 691 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 117 reports, then heat and hot water at 78. Reports on West 1 Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. About 88 reports per 100 homes sit on West 1 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 1 Street carries 48 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 1 Street is paint and lead, at 50 violations. Pests accounts for 43 more, and mold for 37. City housing records put 785 homes in 216 residential buildings on West 1 Street, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.6 homes each.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 49, with infrastructure at 17. West 1 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 45 and housing at 31. Against every street in the city, West 1 Street ranks 73 on transit and 67 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 1 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
25% of the 785 homes recorded on West 1 Street are rent-stabilized, 198 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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