Avenue H, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Avenue H in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue H in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (71) and tree cover (90). Traffic safety (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Avenue H. Reported crashes here have injured 138 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 21 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 383 of them. The whole 311 file on Avenue H holds 982 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 249 reports, and residential noise with 99. In all, 85 distinct 311 categories are represented on Avenue H. Set against the 1,648 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 51 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 66 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 52 violations, then plumbing at 29. The housing file lists 239 residential buildings on Avenue H holding 1,648 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.9 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Avenue H ranks 65 on cleanliness and 34 on parking. A 34 on parking places Avenue H in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 54 on the same scale, with quietness at 53. Against every street in the city, Avenue H ranks 55 on food nearby and 47 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue H is housing, at 71.
The housing file puts 21% of the 1,648 homes on Avenue H in rent stabilization, 352 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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