W 9 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does W 9 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 9 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (89) and tree cover (83). Parking (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 9 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 289 of them, and parking ranks 18 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 39% of the 736 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 159 reports, then residential noise at 57. In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 9 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 9 Street carries roughly 62 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 9 Street carries 25 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 9 Street is pests, at 77 violations. Bed bugs follows at 54 violations, then paint and lead at 27. The housing file lists 438 residential buildings on West 9 Street holding 1,183 homes, with 119 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 83, with cleanliness at 28. West 9 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 70 and housing at 53 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 74 and food nearby 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 9 Street ranks 83 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 9 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
15% of the 1,183 homes recorded on West 9 Street are rent-stabilized, 171 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 9 Street runs through Gravesend, Carroll Gardens and Bensonhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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