W 19 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does W 19 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 19 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and transit (86). Parking (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 19 Street, with 166 reports, and parking ranks 0 among numbered streets. Across every category, 376 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 96 reports, then residential noise at 82. The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. About 418 reports per 100 homes sit on West 19 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on West 19 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 90 homes in 39 residential buildings on West 19 Street, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 19 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 51, with quietness at 3. West 19 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 24 and traffic safety at 22. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 81 and tree cover at 30. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 19 Street, at 86. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 19 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where West 19 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 92.
The housing file puts 12% of the 90 homes on West 19 Street in rent stabilization, 11 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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