Neighborhoods in Brooklyn: The Complete List

There is no single official count, because "neighborhood" is a colloquial term. The city's own planning unit is the Neighborhood Tabulation Area (NTA), and Brooklyn has 53 residential NTAs in the 2020 boundaries — the list in the second table on this page. DwellCheck publishes a page for 43 named Brooklyn neighborhoods, some of which sit inside a larger NTA and some of which span more than one.

43 Brooklyn neighborhoods have a DwellCheck page. 42 of them carry a published livability composite, and 37 have a full safety page with NYPD crime, shooting and arrest counts. Every residential NTA in the borough has computed crime and noise numbers, shown in the second table, whether or not a neighborhood page covers it.

The livability composite is DwellCheck's 0-10 score built from NYC Open Data (building violations, subway access, trees and noise, park proximity). "Complaints per 1,000 residents" is NYPD complaints inside the neighborhood over 12 months divided by its 2020 Census population. "Complaints per 300m" is the mean NYPD complaint count within 300 meters of 100 sampled points inside the NTA. "Noise median" is the median 311 noise complaint count within 100 meters of those points.

Brooklyn guides come from two generations of the scoring model: most are built from NYC Open Data, and a few older ones from for-sale-listing DwellScores. The two are on different scales, so a score from one model should never be compared with a score from the other. The model is labelled next to every score in the table, and the ranked "best neighborhoods" page uses only the NYC Open Data scores.

6 of Brooklyn's 53 residential NTAs have no DwellCheck neighborhood page yet. Their crime and noise numbers are still computed and shown here; there is simply no deeper page to link to. The city's NTA names also merge several colloquial neighborhoods into one unit, so a name you are looking for may appear as part of a longer hyphenated NTA name.

Pick the dimension that actually decides it for you, then use the ranked page for that dimension: the Brooklyn safest-neighborhoods page for NYPD crime data, the quietest-neighborhoods page for 311 noise, and the best-neighborhoods page for the Livability & Safety score, which blends two thirds of the livability composite with one third of the neighborhood's NYPD crime rate per resident and prints both components. This index is alphabetical, not a ranking. Then check the specific address, because every number on this page is a neighborhood average and buildings inside one neighborhood differ a lot.