York Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does York Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, 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 York Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and food nearby (86). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on York Street, with 807 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,051 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 77% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 165 reports, and illegal parking with 118. In all, 47 distinct 311 categories are represented on York Street. Set against the 448 homes on file, that is about 235 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on York Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 5 residential buildings on York Street hold the 448 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on York Street holds about 90 homes.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on York Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 73, with traffic safety at 17. A 17 on traffic safety places York Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 43 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 23. The citywide frame puts transit at 81 and tree cover at 44. York Street ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on York Street is housing, at 98.
About 2% of the 448 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 10 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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