14 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does 14 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 14 Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (96) and tree cover (92). Traffic safety (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 14 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 14 Avenue have injured 163 people, and traffic safety ranks 38 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 395 of them. The whole 311 file on 14 Avenue holds 1,196 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 86 reports, then heat and hot water at 83. In all, 87 distinct 311 categories are represented on 14 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 60 reports for every 100 homes on 14 Avenue.
HPD has cited 91 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 101 violations on file. Pests accounts for 94 more, and paint and lead for 38. The housing file lists 495 residential buildings on 14 Avenue holding 2,004 homes, with 122 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4 homes each.
Among busy avenues, 14 Avenue ranks 76 on cleanliness and 63 on parking. That 63 on parking puts 14 Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 70 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 63. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 14 Avenue is quietness, at 95.
About 29% of the 2,004 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 579 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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14 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).