Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Alabama Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Alabama Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (81) and tree cover (90). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Alabama Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 181 of them. Across every category, 505 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 63 reports, and blocked driveway with 45. Reports on Alabama Avenue span 57 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Alabama Avenue carries roughly 89 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Alabama Avenue carries 60 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Alabama Avenue, 76 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (49 violations) and plumbing (30). PLUTO counts 173 residential buildings and 565 homes on Alabama Avenue, with 25 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 60 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Alabama Avenue ranks 27 on infrastructure and 11 on traffic safety. An 11 on traffic safety places Alabama Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 24 on the same scale, with parking at 19. Transit ranks 71 and food nearby 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Alabama Avenue, at 90. Alabama Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
About 16% of the 565 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 89 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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