13 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does 13 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 85, ranked against busy avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 13 Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and tree cover (86). Transit (57) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 13 Avenue, with 450 reports. The whole 311 file on 13 Avenue holds 1,320 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (142 reports) and dirty condition (83). In all, 97 distinct 311 categories are represented on 13 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 13 Avenue carries roughly 103 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 125 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 135 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 72 more, and doors for 57. City housing records put 1,283 homes in 408 residential buildings on 13 Avenue, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 13 Avenue holds about 3.1 homes.
NYPD records 110 people injured in crashes on 13 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 91, with traffic safety at 68. That 68 on traffic safety puts 13 Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 91 and housing at 77. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 65 and transit at 57. 13 Avenue ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where 13 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 98.
About 15% of the 1,283 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 190 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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13 Avenue runs through Borough Park and Dyker Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).