Arlington Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Arlington Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 15, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Arlington Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (43) and transit (86). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Arlington Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 436 of them, and parking ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 47% of the 924 reports on file here. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (73 reports) and residential noise (58). In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on Arlington Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 246 reports for every 100 homes on Arlington Avenue.
The HPD file on Arlington Avenue carries 44 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Arlington Avenue, 50 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 32 more, and plumbing for 23. City housing records put 376 homes in 126 residential buildings on Arlington Avenue, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3 homes each.
Reported crashes on Arlington Avenue have injured 76 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Arlington Avenue ranks 35 on cleanliness and 5 on traffic safety. That 5 on traffic safety puts Arlington Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 11 on the same scale, with quietness at 5. Against every street in the city, Arlington Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover and 63 on food nearby. Arlington Avenue ranks 86 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Arlington Avenue is infrastructure, at 43.
19% of the 376 homes recorded on Arlington Avenue are rent-stabilized, 70 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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