West Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does West Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 63, 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 West Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and tree cover (76). Parking (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Divided by the homes on file, West Street carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 10 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 234 residential buildings on West Street hold the 2,133 homes on file, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 9.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on West Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, West Street ranks 77 on quietness and 56 on cleanliness. A 56 on cleanliness places West Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 75 and housing at 71 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, West Street ranks 63 on food nearby and 57 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 76. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band West Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
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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West Street runs through Greenpoint, Gravesend & Homecrest and Gravesend, 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).