W 33 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 33 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.

Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts W 33 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (96) and tree cover (34). Quietness (14) is the weak spot.

On the record

Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 33 Street, with 261 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 726 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 112 reports, and unsanitary condition with 42. In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 33 Street. The 311 file works out to about 53 reports for every 100 homes on West 33 Street.

The HPD file on West 33 Street carries 32 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 33 Street, 27 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (27 violations) and doors (22). PLUTO counts 25 residential buildings and 1,378 homes on West 33 Street, with 0 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 55 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on West 33 Street have injured 14 people since 2021.

Among numbered streets, West 33 Street ranks 89 on traffic safety and 37 on infrastructure. That 37 on infrastructure puts West 33 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 71 and housing at 54 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 24, 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 33 Street, at 34. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 33 Street is scored inside.

Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.

Of the 1,378 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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