Avenue I, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Avenue I in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue I in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and tree cover (93). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue I. 200 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 247 of them. Across every category, 858 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 135 reports, then heat and hot water at 128. The file runs across 79 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,621 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 90 Class C violations on Avenue I, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Avenue I, 77 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (73 violations) and doors (34). The housing file lists 542 residential buildings on Avenue I holding 1,621 homes, with 31 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 49 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 27. That 27 on cleanliness puts Avenue I in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 46 and infrastructure at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and transit at 52. Avenue I ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 24% of the 1,621 homes on file, 392 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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