W 36 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 36 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against numbered streets. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts W 36 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and tree cover (37). Transit (16) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 36 Street, with 21 reports. The whole 311 file on West 36 Street holds 198 reports, and illegal parking is 11% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (18 reports) and heat and hot water (11). In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 36 Street. Set against the 559 homes on file, that is about 35 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 49 Class C violations on West 36 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 36 Street is doors, at 27 violations. Paint and lead follows at 21 violations, then pests at 14. City housing records put 559 homes in 91 residential buildings on West 36 Street, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 36 Street holds about 6.1 homes.
Among numbered streets, West 36 Street ranks 96 on traffic safety and 30 on housing. That 30 on housing puts West 36 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 95 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 47. Against every street in the city, West 36 Street ranks 18 on food nearby and 16 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on West 36 Street, at 37. West 36 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 36 Street is quietness, at 99.
None of the 559 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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