W 4 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does W 4 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 4 Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (88) and tree cover (75). Parking (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 4 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 204 of them, and parking ranks 10 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 4 Street holds 719 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 130 reports, and residential noise with 42. Reports on West 4 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 86 reports for every 100 homes on West 4 Street.
The HPD file on West 4 Street carries 44 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 4 Street, 50 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 43 more, and paint and lead for 40. The housing file lists 269 residential buildings on West 4 Street holding 840 homes, with 69 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 4 Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 87 among numbered streets and housing ranks 27. That 27 on housing puts West 4 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 81 and infrastructure at 31. The citywide frame puts transit at 67 and food nearby at 63. West 4 Street ranks 75 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 4 Street is cleanliness, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 840 homes on file, 111 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 4 Street runs through Gravesend and Bensonhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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