Avenue L, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Avenue L in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against busy avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue L in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (86) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Avenue L. Reported crashes here have injured 285 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 13 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Avenue L, with 346 reports. Across every category, 1,145 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 134 reports, and residential noise with 99. The file runs across 87 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue L carries roughly 72 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Avenue L carries 65 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Avenue L, 125 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 61 violations, then structure at 36. 839 residential buildings on Avenue L hold the 1,580 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 83, with infrastructure at 15. A 15 on infrastructure places Avenue L in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 64 and parking at 57. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Avenue L is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue L is quietness, at 86.
The housing file puts 17% of the 1,580 homes on Avenue L in rent stabilization, 271 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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