Avenue M, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Avenue M in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Avenue M in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (89) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Avenue M. Since 2021, reported crashes on Avenue M have injured 294 people, and traffic safety ranks 15 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Avenue M is led by illegal parking, with 267 reports. Across every category, 1,092 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (224 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (125). The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. About 68 reports per 100 homes sit on Avenue M, counting every category.
Avenue M carries 25 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Avenue M is pests, at 47 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (22 violations) and doors (12). 835 residential buildings on Avenue M hold the 1,600 homes on file, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 86, with infrastructure at 36. A 36 on infrastructure places Avenue M in the weaker half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 62 on the same scale, with parking at 47. Against every street in the city, Avenue M ranks 48 on food nearby and 29 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue M is housing, at 89.
3% of the 1,600 homes recorded on Avenue M are rent-stabilized, 48 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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