W 20 Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does W 20 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 20 Street in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (33) and food nearby (75). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 20 Street, with 55 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among numbered streets. Across every category, 153 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (48 reports) and blocked driveway (20). Reports on West 20 Street span 29 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 20 Street carries roughly 139 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 20 Street carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 20 Street, 17 violations of it. 48 residential buildings on West 20 Street hold the 110 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 20 Street ranks 26 on housing and 10 on parking. A 10 on parking places West 20 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 23 on the same scale, with quietness at 18. The citywide frame puts transit at 74 and tree cover at 37. West 20 Street ranks 75 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 20 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 33.
7% of the 110 homes recorded on West 20 Street are rent-stabilized, 8 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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