Avenue A, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
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 14, 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
Crashes are the mark against Avenue A. 35 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 6 among smaller avenues. HPD has cited 19 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Commercial noise is the most-filed, with 50 reports. Tree cover ranks 52, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 39 against every street in the city. None of the 250 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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