Whipple Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Whipple Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Whipple Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and transit (88). Street crime (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Whipple Street name illegal parking than any other category, 24 of them. The whole 311 file on Whipple Street holds 69 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 17 reports. In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Whipple Street. About 113 reports per 100 homes sit on Whipple Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on Whipple Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 5 residential buildings on Whipple Street holding 61 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 88 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 15. Whipple Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. Parking ranks 50 on the same scale, with housing at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 87 and tree cover at 30. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Whipple Street, at 88. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Whipple Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
Of the 61 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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