3 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does 3 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against major corridors. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 3 Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (87) and tree cover (95). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 3 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 1,152 of them, and cleanliness ranks 13 among major corridors. The whole 311 file on 3 Avenue holds 3,597 reports, and illegal parking is 32% of it. After that the file runs to commercial noise (322 reports) and dirty condition (209). The file runs across 109 distinct 311 categories in all. About 87 reports per 100 homes sit on 3 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 212 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 3 Avenue, 187 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 149 more, and paint and lead for 99. The housing file lists 640 residential buildings on 3 Avenue holding 4,117 homes, with 86 walk-ups and 12 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 577 people injured in crashes on 3 Avenue since 2021.
Against major corridors, quietness comes in at 63, with parking at 44. A 44 on parking places 3 Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts traffic safety at 53 and housing at 45 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, 3 Avenue ranks 85 on food nearby and 77 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. 3 Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
24% of the 4,117 homes recorded on 3 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 940 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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