Avenue N, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Avenue N in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against busy avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Avenue N in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (86) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (19) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue N. Since 2021, reported crashes on Avenue N have injured 295 people, and traffic safety ranks 19 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 510 of them. Across every category, 1,392 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 163 reports, then heat and hot water at 96. Reports on Avenue N span 88 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 74 reports for every 100 homes on Avenue N.
The HPD file on Avenue N carries 61 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Avenue N, 100 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (59 violations) and doors (57). PLUTO counts 663 residential buildings and 1,874 homes on Avenue N, with 36 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 77 among busy avenues and parking ranks 41. A 41 on parking places Avenue N in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 69 and infrastructure at 49 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Avenue N ranks 35 on food nearby and 30 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Avenue N is scored inside.
Quietness is where Avenue N ranks best against busy avenues, at 86.
The housing file puts 24% of the 1,874 homes on Avenue N in rent stabilization, 446 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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