Argyle Road, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Argyle Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.

Calm 36, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 Argyle Road in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (77) and tree cover (87). Parking (13) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Argyle Road name illegal parking than any other category, 268 of them, and parking ranks 13 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Argyle Road holds 1,130 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 130 reports, then heat and hot water at 124. Reports on Argyle Road span 60 distinct 311 categories. About 102 reports per 100 homes sit on Argyle Road, counting every category.

The HPD file on Argyle Road carries 97 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Argyle Road, 81 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (45 violations) and structure (25). City housing records put 1,105 homes in 181 residential buildings on Argyle Road, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.1 homes to a building.

Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 30, with housing at 15. Argyle Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Quietness ranks 23 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 16. Against every street in the city, Argyle Road ranks 82 on food nearby and 80 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Argyle Road, at 87. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Argyle Road is scored inside.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 52.

About 47% of the 1,105 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 515 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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