Avenue K, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Avenue K in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Avenue K in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue K. Since 2021, reported crashes on Avenue K have injured 256 people, and traffic safety ranks 12 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Avenue K is led by illegal parking, with 207 reports. Across every category, 1,575 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (180 reports) and heat and hot water (176). The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue K carries roughly 70 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Avenue K carries 252 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Avenue K, 214 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (190 violations) and doors (103). The housing file lists 708 residential buildings on Avenue K holding 2,254 homes, with 31 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Avenue K ranks 63 on cleanliness and 18 on infrastructure. Avenue K sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts parking at 49 and housing at 30 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. Avenue K is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Avenue K ranks best against busy avenues, at 74.
The housing file puts 41% of the 2,254 homes on Avenue K in rent stabilization, 934 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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