Winthrop Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Winthrop Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Winthrop Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (66) and tree cover (88). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Winthrop Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Winthrop Street have injured 160 people, and traffic safety ranks 6 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Winthrop Street is led by heat and hot water, with 184 reports. Heat and hot water accounts for 12% of the 1,547 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 156 reports, then blocked driveway at 96. In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on Winthrop Street. Divided by the homes on file, Winthrop Street carries roughly 96 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Winthrop Street carries 319 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 20 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Winthrop Street, 195 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 150 violations, then doors at 102. City housing records put 1,610 homes in 241 residential buildings on Winthrop Street, 70 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.7 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 57, with housing at 12. Winthrop Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Parking ranks 53 on the same scale, with quietness at 46. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. Winthrop Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
51% of the 1,610 homes recorded on Winthrop Street are rent-stabilized, 812 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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