Avenue C, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Avenue C in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue C in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (39) and food nearby (78). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Avenue C, with 100 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 551 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Graffiti follows with 89 reports, and heat and hot water with 38. Reports on Avenue C span 61 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 410 homes on file, that is about 134 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 101 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 25 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 84 violations on file. Structure accounts for 24 more, and bed bugs for 21. 81 residential buildings on Avenue C hold the 410 homes on file, 35 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 50 people injured in crashes on Avenue C since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 26, with housing at 4. That 4 on housing puts Avenue C in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 22 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 6. Transit ranks 75 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Avenue C, at 78. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Avenue C is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue C is infrastructure, at 39.
About 16% of the 410 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 66 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
- Autumn Avenue, Brooklyn
- Avenue A, Brooklyn
- Avenue B, Brooklyn
- Avenue D, Brooklyn
- Avenue F, Brooklyn
- Avenue H, Brooklyn
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).