Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against major corridors. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Atlantic Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (46) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Atlantic Avenue. 1,394 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 15 among major corridors. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Atlantic Avenue, with 1,260 reports. Across every category, 4,426 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 350 reports, then residential noise at 337. Reports on Atlantic Avenue span 115 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 6,205 homes on file, that is about 71 reports per 100 homes.
Atlantic Avenue carries 426 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 247 violations on file. Heat and hot water follows at 145 violations, then bed bugs at 140. PLUTO counts 563 residential buildings and 6,205 homes on Atlantic Avenue, with 112 walk-ups and 31 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Among major corridors, Atlantic Avenue ranks 46 on parking and 22 on cleanliness. That 22 on cleanliness puts Atlantic Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Infrastructure ranks 44 on the same scale, with housing at 23. Against every street in the city, Atlantic Avenue ranks 90 on transit and 84 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. Atlantic Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Quietness is where Atlantic Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 46.
The housing file puts 19% of the 6,205 homes on Atlantic Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,104 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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Atlantic Avenue runs through Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy and Ocean Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).