Avenue S, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Avenue S in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Avenue S in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and tree cover (95); traffic safety (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue S. 214 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 16 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 66 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 792 reports. Tree cover ranks 95, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 51 against every street in the city. Only about 8% of the 1,276 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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