W 8 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does W 8 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 8 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (48) and transit (85). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 8 Street, with 541 reports, and parking ranks 2 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,397 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 167 reports, then blocked driveway at 123. In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 8 Street. The 311 file works out to about 127 reports for every 100 homes on West 8 Street.
West 8 Street carries 35 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 8 Street is pests, at 35 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (32 violations) and bathroom (18). City housing records put 1,099 homes in 440 residential buildings on West 8 Street, 80 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 8 Street holds about 2.5 homes.
Reported crashes on West 8 Street have injured 48 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 38, with cleanliness at 12. That 12 on cleanliness puts West 8 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 34 and infrastructure at 27. Against every street in the city, West 8 Street ranks 81 on tree cover and 72 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 8 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 48.
14% of the 1,099 homes recorded on West 8 Street are rent-stabilized, 153 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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