Avenue K, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Avenue K in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Avenue K in the bottom 45% 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. 256 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 12 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 231 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 207 reports. Tree cover ranks 96, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 48 against every street in the city. About 41% of the 2,254 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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