W 28 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does W 28 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against numbered streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts W 28 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and food nearby (45). Housing (28) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Unsanitary condition is the most-filed complaint on West 28 Street, with 61 reports. The whole 311 file on West 28 Street holds 367 reports, and unsanitary condition is 17% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (21 reports) and heat and hot water (16). The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,145 homes on file, that is about 32 reports per 100 homes.
West 28 Street carries 115 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 95 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 79 violations, then doors at 75. City housing records put 1,145 homes in 22 residential buildings on West 28 Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 52 homes each.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 96 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 42. A 42 on cleanliness places West 28 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 90 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 65. Tree cover ranks 34 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 45. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,145 on West 28 Street.
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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