Ridgewood vs Bushwick

Ridgewood and Bushwick share a border that is also the line between Queens and Brooklyn, and the scores change at it. The middle street in Ridgewood scores 53 out of 100 and the middle street in Bushwick 49, which places Ridgewood 15th of the 57 Queens neighborhoods on this site and Bushwick 38th of the 48 Brooklyn ones.

Ridgewood takes quietness, 44 to 22, cleanliness, 50 to 34, and traffic safety, 42 to 37. Bushwick takes access, 77 against Ridgewood's 68, on what its blocks reach on foot.

The two logs do not open on the same complaint. Illegal parking tops Ridgewood's, at 14,947 of the 54,172 complaints and violations recorded on its streets, or 28%. Residential noise tops Bushwick's, at 10,307 of 81,294, or 13%, with illegal parking behind it.

Bushwick's streets carry half again as many records as Ridgewood's on a similar number of scored blocks, and the quietness column is where that lands. Bushwick reads 22 on quietness, the lowest of the 48 Brooklyn neighborhoods here, against Ridgewood's 44 on the same column.

Catalpa Avenue scores 81 out of 100, the best reading in either neighborhood, on a cleanliness column of 85 and a quietness column of 76. Nothing in Bushwick reaches it.

St Nicholas Avenue is the highest block in Bushwick at 71, and its own columns split hard: 87 on what it reaches on foot and 33 on traffic safety. A street can be well connected and still be a poor place to cross the road.