20 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does 20 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 20 Avenue in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and tree cover (93). Cleanliness (34) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 20 Avenue, with 515 reports, and cleanliness ranks 34 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,389 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to plumbing (449 reports) and unsanitary condition (155). The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on 20 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 20 Avenue carries 31 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 20 Avenue is pests, at 108 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (68 violations) and bed bugs (67). PLUTO counts 434 residential buildings and 1,809 homes on 20 Avenue, with 84 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 93 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 89, with parking at 58. 20 Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts quietness at 85 and traffic safety at 70 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 20 Avenue ranks 74 on food nearby and 67 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 20 Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where 20 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 97.
The housing file puts 40% of the 1,809 homes on 20 Avenue in rent stabilization, 723 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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