Albemarle Road, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Albemarle Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Albemarle Road in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (63) and tree cover (84). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Albemarle Road, with 311 reports. Across every category, 2,141 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 260 reports, and residential noise with 153. The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,521 homes on file, that is about 141 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 342 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Albemarle Road, 243 violations of it. Pests follows at 208 violations, then doors at 140. The housing file lists 129 residential buildings on Albemarle Road holding 1,521 homes, with 28 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Since 2021, 50 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 28 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 12. A 12 on parking places Albemarle Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 20 and quietness at 14 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 78 and transit 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Albemarle Road, at 84. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Albemarle Road is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Albemarle Road is infrastructure, at 63.
The housing file puts 63% of the 1,521 homes on Albemarle Road in rent stabilization, 962 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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