19 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 19 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 19 Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (87). Traffic safety (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 19 Avenue. 88 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 30 among busy avenues. The 311 file on 19 Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 275 reports. Across every category, 780 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 126 reports, then heat and hot water at 46. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. About 47 reports per 100 homes sit on 19 Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 35 Class C violations on 19 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 19 Avenue is pests, at 77 violations. Bed bugs follows at 58 violations, then paint and lead at 47. PLUTO counts 455 residential buildings and 1,644 homes on 19 Avenue, with 114 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.6 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 92 among busy avenues and parking ranks 32. That 32 on parking puts 19 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 59 and infrastructure at 39 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 83 and transit 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 19 Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 19 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 1,644 homes on file, 342 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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19 Avenue runs through Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Borough Park, 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).