W 23 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does W 23 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 23 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (91) and transit (61). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 23 Street name residential noise than any other category, 890 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 23 Street holds 925 reports, and residential noise is 96% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (26 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (19). The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 740 homes on file, that is about 125 reports per 100 homes.
West 23 Street carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 12 violations on file. 42 residential buildings on West 23 Street hold the 740 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 23 Street holds about 18 homes.
Reported crashes on West 23 Street have injured 13 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 23 Street ranks 89 on infrastructure and 73 on traffic safety. West 23 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 79 on the same scale, with parking at 78. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and tree cover at 35. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 61. West 23 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 23 Street is housing, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 740 homes on file, 10 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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