W 15 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does W 15 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 15 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (77) and transit (87). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 15 Street, with 125 reports, and parking ranks 23 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 15 Street holds 355 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 66 reports, and heat and hot water with 11. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. About 96 reports per 100 homes sit on West 15 Street, counting every category.
West 15 Street carries 18 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 15 Street, 19 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (18 violations) and doors (14). 86 residential buildings on West 15 Street hold the 368 homes on file, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.3 homes each.
NYPD records 15 people injured in crashes on West 15 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 51 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 27. That 27 on quietness puts West 15 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 51 and cleanliness at 45. Against every street in the city, West 15 Street ranks 83 on food nearby and 58 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 15 Street, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 15 Street is infrastructure, at 77.
About 32% of the 368 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 117 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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