23 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 23 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 23 Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (83) and food nearby (82). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 23 Avenue, with 359 reports, and parking ranks 5 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 23 Avenue holds 661 reports, and illegal parking is 54% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 92 reports, and heat and hot water with 35. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 771 homes on file, that is about 86 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 47 Class C violations on 23 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 54 violations on file. Pests accounts for 38 more, and bed bugs for 36. PLUTO counts 173 residential buildings and 771 homes on 23 Avenue, with 95 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on 23 Avenue have injured 41 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 65 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 24. 23 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 49 on the same scale, with housing at 37. The citywide frame puts transit at 76 and tree cover at 74. 23 Avenue ranks 82 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 23 Avenue is quietness, at 83.
26% of the 771 homes recorded on 23 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 201 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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