5 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does 5 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against major corridors. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 5 Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (84) and tree cover (98). Housing (47) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 5 Avenue, with 1,020 reports. The whole 311 file on 5 Avenue holds 4,727 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. Commercial noise follows with 521 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 380. In all, 125 distinct 311 categories are represented on 5 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 5 Avenue carries roughly 87 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 305 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 5 Avenue is pests, at 339 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (205 violations) and paint and lead (130). 1,150 residential buildings on 5 Avenue hold the 5,447 homes on file, 137 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.7 homes each.
Since 2021, 433 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against major corridors, parking comes in at 71, with cleanliness at 51. 5 Avenue sits in the stronger half of major corridors on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 70 and quietness at 61 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, 5 Avenue ranks 90 on food nearby and 79 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 5 Avenue is traffic safety, at 80.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 5,447 homes on file, 993 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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5 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).