Willoughby Street, Brooklyn: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 86 out of 100. How does Willoughby Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 86 out of 100.
Calm 85, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, 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 Willoughby Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and transit (98). Tree cover (47) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Willoughby Street, with 82 reports. The whole 311 file on Willoughby Street holds 262 reports, and illegal parking is 31% of it. Noise follows with 35 reports, and residential noise with 16. Reports on Willoughby Street span 66 distinct 311 categories. About 7 reports per 100 homes sit on Willoughby Street, counting every category.
Willoughby Street carries 8 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. City housing records put 3,627 homes in 15 residential buildings on Willoughby Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 242 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 24 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Willoughby Street ranks 93 on quietness and 74 on traffic safety. Willoughby Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 90 and cleanliness at 83. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 47, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Willoughby Street ranks 98 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 38% of the 3,627 homes on file, 1,223 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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Willoughby Street runs through DUMBO and Fort Greene, 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).