Avenue R, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Avenue R in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue R in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (94) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Avenue R, with 350 reports. The whole 311 file on Avenue R holds 555 reports, and illegal parking is 63% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 99 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 73. In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on Avenue R. Set against the 868 homes on file, that is about 64 reports per 100 homes.
Avenue R carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Avenue R is pests, at 11 violations. 451 residential buildings on Avenue R hold the 868 homes on file, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 131 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Avenue R ranks 72 on quietness and 7 on traffic safety. A 7 on traffic safety places Avenue R in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 62 and parking at 21 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Avenue R, at 95. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Avenue R is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 868 homes on file, 227 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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