Water Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Water Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Water Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and food nearby (84). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Water Street, with 893 reports, and parking ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Vendor enforcement follows with 61 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 36. Reports on Water Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 385 homes on file, that is about 179 reports per 100 homes.
Water Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 21 residential buildings on Water Street holding 385 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on Water Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 87, with quietness at 37. A 37 on quietness places Water Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 64 and traffic safety at 44. The citywide frame puts transit at 79 and tree cover at 33. Water Street ranks 84 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
37% of the 385 homes recorded on Water Street are rent-stabilized, 141 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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