17 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 17 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 17 Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and tree cover (93). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 17 Avenue, with 312 reports. Across every category, 1,046 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Street condition is the next most-filed at 104 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 97. The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,605 homes on file, that is about 65 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 29 Class C violations on 17 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 17 Avenue is pests, at 65 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (64 violations) and doors (18). The housing file lists 564 residential buildings on 17 Avenue holding 1,605 homes, with 148 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 17 Avenue have injured 90 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 89, with parking at 39. 17 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts housing at 80 and traffic safety at 43 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 17 Avenue ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 17 Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where 17 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 94.
14% of the 1,605 homes recorded on 17 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 227 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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17 Avenue runs through Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Bath Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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