Willow Street, Brooklyn: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 81 out of 100. How does Willow Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 81 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Willow Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (92) and food nearby (90). Infrastructure (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Willow Street, with 16 reports. Across every category, 82 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 10 reports, then general construction and plumbing at 10. The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 500 homes on file, that is about 16 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 2 Class C violations on Willow Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Willow Street, 15 violations of it. The housing file lists 81 residential buildings on Willow Street holding 500 homes, with 28 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.2 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 86 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 55. Willow Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Parking ranks 86 on the same scale, with housing at 86. Against every street in the city, Willow Street ranks 89 on transit and 70 on tree cover. Willow Street ranks 90 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Willow Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Willow Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 89.
About 5% of the 500 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 24 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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Willow Street runs through Brooklyn Heights, 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).