7 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does 7 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against major corridors. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 7 Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (86) and tree cover (98). Housing (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 7 Avenue, with 682 reports. The whole 311 file on 7 Avenue holds 2,779 reports, and illegal parking is 25% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 152 reports, and maintenance or facility with 136. In all, 108 distinct 311 categories are represented on 7 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 7 Avenue carries roughly 93 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 240 Class C violations on 7 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 7 Avenue is pests, at 230 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 201 more, and paint and lead for 93. The housing file lists 715 residential buildings on 7 Avenue holding 2,974 homes, with 179 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.2 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 7 Avenue have injured 280 people since 2021.
Against major corridors, traffic safety comes in at 66, with cleanliness at 40. A 40 on cleanliness places 7 Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, infrastructure sits at 65 and parking at 49. Against every street in the city, 7 Avenue ranks 78 on food nearby and 57 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. 7 Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
The housing file puts 19% of the 2,974 homes on 7 Avenue in rent stabilization, 555 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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7 Avenue runs through Bay Ridge, Sunset Park and Park Slope, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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