W 17 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does W 17 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 17 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and transit (82). Traffic safety (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 17 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 35 of them. The whole 311 file on West 17 Street holds 107 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 14 reports, and residential noise with 12. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 17 Street carries roughly 50 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on West 17 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 17 Street, 17 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 14 more, and paint and lead for 11. 72 residential buildings on West 17 Street hold the 212 homes on file, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on West 17 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 87 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 38. A 38 on quietness places West 17 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 65 and parking at 46. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 73 and tree cover at 34. West 17 Street ranks 82 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
7% of the 212 homes recorded on West 17 Street are rent-stabilized, 15 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 17 Street runs through Coney Island and Gravesend, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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