Avenue P, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Avenue P in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue P in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (69) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue P. Reported crashes here have injured 305 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 7 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Avenue P is led by illegal parking, with 303 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 19% of the 1,578 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (197 reports) and heat and hot water (168). Reports on Avenue P span 92 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue P carries roughly 83 reports per 100 of them.
Avenue P carries 162 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 84 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 64 violations, then doors at 61. The housing file lists 407 residential buildings on Avenue P holding 1,894 homes, with 34 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.7 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Avenue P ranks 54 on quietness and 32 on parking. A 32 on parking places Avenue P in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 49 and housing at 40. Against every street in the city, Avenue P ranks 67 on food nearby and 44 on transit. Avenue P ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where Avenue P ranks best against busy avenues, at 69.
Rent stabilization covers about 35% of the 1,894 homes on file, 671 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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