Albany Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Albany Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Albany Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (75) and tree cover (93). Traffic safety (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Albany Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 318 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 17 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Albany Avenue is led by residential noise, with 274 reports. Across every category, 2,042 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 191 reports, and heat and hot water with 170. Reports on Albany Avenue span 91 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Albany Avenue carries roughly 66 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Albany Avenue carries 351 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Albany Avenue is pests, at 213 violations. Paint and lead follows at 150 violations, then structure at 119. The housing file lists 627 residential buildings on Albany Avenue holding 3,072 homes, with 106 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.9 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Albany Avenue ranks 66 on infrastructure and 31 on housing. A 31 on housing places Albany Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 61 and cleanliness at 37. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Albany Avenue ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 75.
The housing file puts 33% of the 3,072 homes on Albany Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,003 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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