16 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does 16 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 65, 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 16 Avenue in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (88). Infrastructure (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 16 Avenue, with 476 reports. The whole 311 file on 16 Avenue holds 988 reports, and illegal parking is 48% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 86 reports, then street condition at 48. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,273 homes on file, that is about 78 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 16 Avenue carries 23 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 16 Avenue, 57 violations of it. Pests accounts for 51 more, and paint and lead for 23. 528 residential buildings on 16 Avenue hold the 1,273 homes on file, 86 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 109 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 16 Avenue ranks 86 on housing and 35 on parking. 16 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts cleanliness at 72 and traffic safety at 37 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 62 and food nearby 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 16 Avenue, at 88. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 16 Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where 16 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 97.
About 4% of the 1,273 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 50 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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16 Avenue runs through Bensonhurst, Borough Park 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).