18 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does 18 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 18 Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (92). Cleanliness (48) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 18 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 381 of them, and cleanliness ranks 48 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 18 Avenue holds 1,710 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 104 reports, then blocked driveway at 82. Reports on 18 Avenue span 104 distinct 311 categories. About 102 reports per 100 homes sit on 18 Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 194 Class C violations on 18 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 236 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 184 violations, then structure at 76. 536 residential buildings on 18 Avenue hold the 1,671 homes on file, 45 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 18 Avenue holds about 3.1 homes.
Since 2021, 200 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 87 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 49. That 49 on traffic safety puts 18 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 85 and housing at 72 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 76 and transit 67, 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. 18 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
The housing file puts 25% of the 1,671 homes on 18 Avenue in rent stabilization, 418 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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18 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).