W 13 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does W 13 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 13 Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and tree cover (73). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 13 Street, with 693 reports, and parking ranks 5 among numbered streets. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (63 reports) and residential noise (41). In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 13 Street. Set against the 591 homes on file, that is about 90 reports per 100 homes.
West 13 Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 38 violations on file. Pests follows at 28 violations. City housing records put 591 homes in 249 residential buildings on West 13 Street, 89 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 13 Street ranks 71 on quietness and 34 on cleanliness. That 34 on cleanliness puts West 13 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 61 and infrastructure at 43. The citywide frame puts transit at 71 and food nearby at 57. West 13 Street ranks 73 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
Of the 591 homes on file, none 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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W 13 Street runs through Gravesend, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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