W 11 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does W 11 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.

Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.

That puts W 11 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (93) and tree cover (78). Quietness (42) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on West 11 Street name residential noise than any other category, 237 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Residential noise accounts for 33% of the 726 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 197 reports, and real time enforcement with 157. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 11 Street. The 311 file works out to about 39 reports for every 100 homes on West 11 Street.

HPD has cited 16 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 11 Street is bed bugs, at 60 violations. Pests follows at 42 violations, then doors at 10. City housing records put 1,858 homes in 305 residential buildings on West 11 Street, 103 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 11 Street holds about 6.1 homes.

Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 79, with infrastructure at 50. A 50 on infrastructure places West 11 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 73 on the same scale, with parking at 60. Transit ranks 72 and food nearby 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 11 Street is scored inside.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.

5% of the 1,858 homes recorded on West 11 Street are rent-stabilized, 96 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.

Nearest streets in Brooklyn

W 11 Street runs through Gravesend and Bensonhurst, 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).

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