27 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 27 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 27 Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and transit (65). Parking (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 27 Avenue, with 43 reports, and parking ranks 20 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 79 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 54% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 12 reports. The file runs across 25 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 173 homes on file, that is about 46 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 27 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 67 residential buildings on 27 Avenue hold the 173 homes on file, 40 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 27 Avenue holds about 2.6 homes.
Among smaller avenues, 27 Avenue ranks 87 on infrastructure and 35 on traffic safety. A 35 on traffic safety places 27 Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 60 on the same scale, with housing at 37. Tree cover ranks 36 and food nearby 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on 27 Avenue, at 65. 27 Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where 27 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 92.
None of the 173 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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