4 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does 4 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against busy avenues. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 4 Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (90) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 4 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 4 Avenue have injured 857 people, and traffic safety ranks 32 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 1,350 of them. Across every category, 5,369 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (421 reports) and residential noise (258). In all, 121 distinct 311 categories are represented on 4 Avenue. Set against the 10,545 homes on file, that is about 51 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 4 Avenue carries 443 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 4 Avenue, 385 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (223 violations) and doors (214). 717 residential buildings on 4 Avenue hold the 10,545 homes on file, 191 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 65 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 4 Avenue holds about 15 homes.
Among busy avenues, 4 Avenue ranks 77 on parking and 44 on cleanliness. That 44 on cleanliness puts 4 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 71 and infrastructure at 54 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 91 and transit 88, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 4 Avenue, at 98. 4 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is where 4 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
About 33% of the 10,545 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 2,739 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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4 Avenue runs through Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Park Slope, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).