15 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does 15 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 15 Avenue in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (96) and tree cover (94). Food nearby (45) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 15 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 518 of them. The whole 311 file on 15 Avenue holds 1,031 reports, and illegal parking is 50% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 91 reports, and residential noise with 75. In all, 86 distinct 311 categories are represented on 15 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 37 reports for every 100 homes on 15 Avenue.
The HPD file on 15 Avenue carries 51 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 15 Avenue, 124 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 111 violations, then paint and lead at 107. 605 residential buildings on 15 Avenue hold the 2,784 homes on file, 158 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 20 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 15 Avenue holds about 4.6 homes.
Reported crashes on 15 Avenue have injured 102 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 94 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 57. 15 Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 80 and parking at 67. Transit ranks 55 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 15 Avenue, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 15 Avenue is quietness, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 2,784 homes on file, 600 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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15 Avenue runs through Borough Park, Bensonhurst and Bath Beach, 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).