Avenue B, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Avenue B in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Avenue B in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (66) and tree cover (62). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue B. 41 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 5 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 29 reports. The whole 311 file on Avenue B holds 188 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 29 reports, then street condition at 24. Reports on Avenue B span 42 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 308 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Avenue B carries 13 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Avenue B is pests, at 28 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (15 violations) and bed bugs (13). PLUTO counts 159 residential buildings and 308 homes on Avenue B, with 23 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 43, with housing at 10. A 10 on housing places Avenue B in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 41 and parking at 41. Transit ranks 33 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 62. Avenue B is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Avenue B ranks best against smaller avenues, at 66.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 308 on Avenue B.
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 B 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).