W 16 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does W 16 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 16 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and transit (87). Quietness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 16 Street, with 113 reports. Across every category, 574 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 98 reports, then blocked driveway at 67. In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 16 Street. About 56 reports per 100 homes sit on West 16 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 21 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 16 Street is bed bugs, at 16 violations. Pests accounts for 10 more. 104 residential buildings on West 16 Street hold the 1,020 homes on file, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 16 Street holds about 9.8 homes.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 98, with cleanliness at 44. West 16 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 56 and parking at 47. Food nearby ranks 83 and tree cover 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 16 Street, at 87. West 16 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 16 Street is traffic safety, at 98.
About 2% of the 1,020 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 18 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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W 16 Street runs through Coney Island and Gravesend, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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