28 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 28 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 28 Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and transit (74). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 28 Avenue, with 111 reports, and parking ranks 13 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on 28 Avenue holds 170 reports, and illegal parking is 65% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (21 reports) and general construction and plumbing (13). In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on 28 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 28 Avenue carries roughly 64 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 28 Avenue. HPD's most-cited category on 28 Avenue is bed bugs, at 12 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 11 violations. PLUTO counts 98 residential buildings and 266 homes on 28 Avenue, with 45 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
NYPD records 9 people injured in crashes on 28 Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, 28 Avenue ranks 44 on quietness and 28 on traffic safety. That 28 on traffic safety puts 28 Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 39 on the same scale, with housing at 35. Against every street in the city, 28 Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby and 29 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 28 Avenue is infrastructure, at 78.
The housing file puts 3% of the 266 homes on 28 Avenue in rent stabilization, 8 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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