W 3 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does W 3 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 3 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and transit (76). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 3 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 342 of them, and parking ranks 2 among numbered streets. Across every category, 705 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 92 reports, and residential noise with 58. The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. About 100 reports per 100 homes sit on West 3 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 14 Class C violations on West 3 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West 3 Street, 20 violations of it. Pests accounts for 18 more. PLUTO counts 255 residential buildings and 702 homes on West 3 Street, with 49 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 3 Street holds about 2.8 homes.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 84, with housing at 62. West 3 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 75 and quietness at 73 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 3 Street ranks 68 on tree cover and 65 on food nearby. West 3 Street ranks 76 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where West 3 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 99.
29% of the 702 homes recorded on West 3 Street are rent-stabilized, 206 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 3 Street runs through Gravesend, Bensonhurst and 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).