White Street, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does White Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 7, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts White Street in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (31) and food nearby (84). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise leads the 311 file on White Street, with 17 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Across every category, 112 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name commercial noise. Maintenance or facility is the next most-filed at 12 reports, then dirty condition at 11. In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on White Street. About 386 reports per 100 homes sit on White Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on White Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 29 homes in 8 residential buildings on White Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.6 homes to a building.
Among quiet residential streets, White Street ranks 11 on infrastructure and 2 on parking. White Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 5 and cleanliness at 3. Against every street in the city, White Street ranks 83 on transit and 20 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on White Street, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 31.
Of the 29 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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White Street runs through East Williamsburg, 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).