Avenue A, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 23 out of 100. How does Avenue A in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 23 out of 100.
Calm 15, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Avenue A in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (34) and tree cover (52). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Avenue A. Since 2021, reported crashes on Avenue A have injured 35 people, and traffic safety ranks 6 among smaller avenues. Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Avenue A, with 50 reports. Across every category, 306 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name commercial noise. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (48 reports) and illegal parking (30). The file runs across 40 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 250 homes on file, that is about 122 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Avenue A carries 20 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Avenue A, 20 violations of it. Pests follows at 16 violations, then paint and lead at 10. PLUTO counts 120 residential buildings and 250 homes on Avenue A, with 27 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Avenue A holds about 2.1 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 23 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 10. A 10 on housing places Avenue A in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 12 and quietness at 11. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 52. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 34.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 250 on Avenue A.
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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Avenue A runs through East Flatbush & Remsen Village, 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).