W 5 Street, Brooklyn: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does W 5 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 85, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 5 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and tree cover (87). Parking (26) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 5 Street, with 688 reports, and parking ranks 26 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 5 Street holds 1,284 reports, and illegal parking is 54% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 228 reports, then heat and hot water at 47. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 5 Street. About 36 reports per 100 homes sit on West 5 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on West 5 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 37 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 30 violations. PLUTO counts 366 residential buildings and 3,584 homes on West 5 Street, with 68 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 41 people injured in crashes on West 5 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 5 Street ranks 92 on housing and 84 on cleanliness. That 84 on cleanliness puts West 5 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 88 and infrastructure at 85 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 76 and food nearby 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 5 Street ranks 87 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
4% of the 3,584 homes recorded on West 5 Street are rent-stabilized, 128 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 5 Street runs through Gravesend, Coney Island and Bensonhurst, 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).