W 2 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does W 2 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against numbered streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 2 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and transit (72). Cleanliness (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 2 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 82 of them, and cleanliness ranks 36 among numbered streets. Across every category, 407 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 76 reports, then blocked driveway at 65. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. About 38 reports per 100 homes sit on West 2 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 2 Street carries 50 Class C violations, 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 2 Street, 34 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (33 violations) and doors (13). City housing records put 1,074 homes in 200 residential buildings on West 2 Street, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 16 people injured in crashes on West 2 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 93, with parking at 41. West 2 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 80 and housing at 51 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 72 and food nearby 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. West 2 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 2 Street is quietness, at 93.
The housing file puts 46% of the 1,074 homes on West 2 Street in rent stabilization, 496 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 2 Street runs through Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Coney Island, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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