Wilson Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Wilson Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Wilson Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (74) and tree cover (52). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Wilson Street name residential noise than any other category, 672 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Wilson Street holds 1,181 reports, and residential noise is 57% of it. Illegal parking follows with 84 reports, and commercial noise with 22. In all, 44 distinct 311 categories are represented on Wilson Street. Divided by the homes on file, Wilson Street carries roughly 204 reports per 100 of them.
Wilson Street carries 5 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 20 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (15 violations) and paint and lead (12). The housing file lists 20 residential buildings on Wilson Street holding 580 homes, with 15 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 29 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 60, with parking at 15. That 15 on parking puts Wilson Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 57 and cleanliness at 49 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 32 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Wilson Street, at 52. Wilson Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
About 17% of the 580 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 98 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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