W 27 Street, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 18 out of 100. How does W 27 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 18 out of 100.
Calm 8, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts W 27 Street in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (47) and food nearby (39). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 27 Street, with 59 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among numbered streets. Across every category, 407 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (41 reports) and illegal parking (23). The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. About 599 reports per 100 homes sit on West 27 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 117 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 27 Street, 60 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 37 more, and doors for 23. PLUTO counts 68 residential buildings and 68 homes on West 27 Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 10 among numbered streets and housing ranks 0. West 27 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 9 on the same scale, with quietness at 2. Transit ranks 37 and tree cover 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 27 Street, at 39. West 27 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where West 27 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 47.
Of the 68 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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 27 Street runs through Coney Island, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).