26 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 26 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 26 Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (88) and transit (59). Traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 26 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 67 of them. The whole 311 file on 26 Avenue holds 115 reports, and illegal parking is 58% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed, with 12 reports. The file runs across 24 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 347 homes on file, that is about 33 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 15 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 12 violations. 136 residential buildings on 26 Avenue hold the 347 homes on file, 31 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on 26 Avenue have injured 22 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 78 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 29. A 29 on housing places 26 Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 42 and parking at 39. Against every street in the city, 26 Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 43 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on 26 Avenue, at 59. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 26 Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where 26 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 88.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 347 on 26 Avenue.
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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