Wolcott Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Wolcott Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Wolcott Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and food nearby (78). Transit (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Wolcott Street name illegal parking than any other category, 13 of them. Across every category, 79 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (11 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (11). In all, 29 distinct 311 categories are represented on Wolcott Street. The 311 file works out to about 85 reports for every 100 homes on Wolcott Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Wolcott Street. City housing records put 93 homes in 28 residential buildings on Wolcott Street, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Among quiet residential streets, Wolcott Street ranks 52 on quietness and 18 on housing. That 18 on housing puts Wolcott Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 36 and parking at 20. Tree cover ranks 48 and transit 17, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Wolcott Street, at 78. Wolcott Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
Of the 93 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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Wolcott Street runs through Carroll Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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