Avenue D, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Avenue D in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue D in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and tree cover (88). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Avenue D. Reported crashes here have injured 262 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 8 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Avenue D is led by heat and hot water, with 133 reports. Across every category, 861 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (118 reports) and residential noise (116). The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue D carries roughly 116 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 115 Class C violations on Avenue D, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 110 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 48 more, and heat and hot water for 47. 276 residential buildings on Avenue D hold the 743 homes on file, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Avenue D holds about 2.7 homes.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 72, with infrastructure at 47. That 47 on infrastructure puts Avenue D in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 68 on the same scale, with housing at 48. Against every street in the city, Avenue D ranks 58 on transit and 51 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Avenue D ranks best against busy avenues, at 81.
The housing file puts 27% of the 743 homes on Avenue D in rent stabilization, 197 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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