Amboy Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Amboy Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 64, 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 Amboy Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (56) and tree cover (74). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Amboy Street, with 81 reports. Across every category, 639 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (78 reports) and unsanitary condition (42). In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on Amboy Street. The 311 file works out to about 88 reports for every 100 homes on Amboy Street.
The HPD file on Amboy Street carries 94 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Amboy Street, 95 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 50 more, and heat and hot water for 36. The housing file lists 221 residential buildings on Amboy Street holding 723 homes, with 64 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Amboy Street have injured 25 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 49, with housing at 10. Amboy Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 21 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 18. Against every street in the city, Amboy Street ranks 63 on transit and 59 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Amboy Street, at 74. Amboy Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 56.
About 6% of the 723 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 44 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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