2 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does 2 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 8, ranked against major corridors. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 2 Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (27) and tree cover (84). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 2 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 409 of them, and cleanliness ranks 0 among major corridors. The whole 311 file on 2 Avenue holds 639 reports, and illegal parking is 64% of it. After that the file runs to consumer complaint (48 reports) and street condition (42). In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on 2 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 2 Avenue carries roughly 447 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 18 Class C violations on 2 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 2 Avenue is heat and hot water, at 26 violations. The housing file lists 17 residential buildings on 2 Avenue holding 143 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 8.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 130 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 11 among major corridors and parking ranks 1. A 1 on parking places 2 Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Traffic safety ranks 3 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 3. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. 2 Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Housing is where 2 Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 27.
7% of the 143 homes recorded on 2 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 10 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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2 Avenue runs through Sunset Park and Carroll Gardens, 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).