8 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 8 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against major corridors. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 8 Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (82) and tree cover (96). Cleanliness (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 8 Avenue, with 587 reports, and cleanliness ranks 30 among major corridors. Across every category, 2,616 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Vendor enforcement is the next most-filed at 297 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 204. In all, 105 distinct 311 categories are represented on 8 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 72 reports for every 100 homes on 8 Avenue.
The HPD file on 8 Avenue carries 99 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 8 Avenue, 169 violations of it. Pests follows at 148 violations, then paint and lead at 53. 663 residential buildings on 8 Avenue hold the 3,617 homes on file, 195 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 8 Avenue holds about 5.5 homes.
Since 2021, 150 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against major corridors, parking comes in at 60, with housing at 48. A 48 on housing places 8 Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts quietness at 51 and infrastructure at 51 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 90 and transit 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 8 Avenue, at 96. About 190 major corridors make up the band 8 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 8 Avenue is traffic safety, at 82.
14% of the 3,617 homes recorded on 8 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 501 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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8 Avenue runs through Sunset Park, Park Slope and Dyker Heights, 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).