Avenue S, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Avenue S in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Avenue S in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and tree cover (95). Traffic safety (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Avenue S. Since 2021, reported crashes on Avenue S have injured 214 people, and traffic safety ranks 16 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Avenue S, with 792 reports. Across every category, 1,286 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 62% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 234 reports, and blocked driveway with 137. Reports on Avenue S span 79 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,276 homes on file, that is about 101 reports per 100 homes.
Avenue S carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 72 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 47 more, and doors for 29. 545 residential buildings on Avenue S hold the 1,276 homes on file, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Avenue S ranks 70 on quietness and 22 on infrastructure. Avenue S sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 38 on the same scale, with parking at 25. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 35, 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 S, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is where Avenue S ranks best against busy avenues, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 1,276 homes on file, 109 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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