Avenue F, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Avenue F in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue F in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and food nearby (69). Cleanliness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Avenue F, with 57 reports, and cleanliness ranks 12 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 200 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 15 reports, and blocked driveway with 12. In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on Avenue F. Set against the 237 homes on file, that is about 84 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on Avenue F, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Avenue F, 34 violations of it. Pests accounts for 27 more, and mold for 19. PLUTO counts 47 residential buildings and 237 homes on Avenue F, with 5 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Avenue F have injured 12 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Avenue F ranks 60 on quietness and 15 on parking. A 15 on parking places Avenue F in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 22 on the same scale, with housing at 17. Transit ranks 62 and tree cover 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 69. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Avenue F is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue F is infrastructure, at 87.
The housing file puts 55% of the 237 homes on Avenue F in rent stabilization, 130 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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