W 7 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does W 7 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 7 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (90) and transit (84). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 7 Street, with 370 reports, and parking ranks 12 among numbered streets. Across every category, 856 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 157 reports, then heat and hot water at 26. In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 7 Street. Set against the 1,221 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 62 Class C violations on West 7 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 76 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (39 violations) and doors (24). City housing records put 1,221 homes in 424 residential buildings on West 7 Street, 67 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 7 Street have injured 14 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 7 Street ranks 88 on traffic safety and 44 on housing. A 44 on housing places West 7 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 75 and cleanliness at 63. Against every street in the city, West 7 Street ranks 78 on food nearby and 71 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 23% of the 1,221 homes on file, 285 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 7 Street runs through Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Gravesend & Homecrest, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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