Atkins Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Atkins Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Atkins Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (48) and tree cover (83). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Atkins Avenue. 51 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 41 reports. Across every category, 294 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name residential noise. Blocked driveway follows with 29 reports, and plumbing with 18. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 434 homes on file, that is about 68 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 11 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Atkins Avenue is pests, at 77 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (34 violations) and paint and lead (29). City housing records put 434 homes in 185 residential buildings on Atkins Avenue, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 36, with housing at 11. An 11 on housing places Atkins Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 34 and quietness at 33. Transit ranks 61 and food nearby 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Atkins Avenue, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Atkins Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 48.
The housing file puts 4% of the 434 homes on Atkins Avenue in rent stabilization, 19 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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