W 31 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does W 31 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 59, 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 31 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and tree cover (48). Housing (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 31 Street, with 59 reports. Across every category, 371 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (50 reports) and unsanitary condition (33). The file runs across 38 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 438 homes on file, that is about 85 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 56 Class C violations on West 31 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 31 Street, 57 violations of it. Doors accounts for 56 more, and pests for 35. The housing file lists 54 residential buildings on West 31 Street holding 438 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.1 homes each.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on West 31 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 31 Street ranks 93 on infrastructure and 36 on cleanliness. That 36 on cleanliness puts West 31 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 82 and quietness at 44 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 25, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on West 31 Street, at 48. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 31 Street is parking, at 98.
None of the 438 homes on file 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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