Avenue U, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Avenue U in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue U in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and tree cover (97). Cleanliness (30) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Avenue U name illegal parking than any other category, 337 of them, and cleanliness ranks 30 among busy avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 29% of the 1,145 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 154 reports, then dirty condition at 132. Reports on Avenue U span 102 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,290 homes on file, that is about 89 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Avenue U carries 44 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 U, 88 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 44 more, and paint and lead for 35. The housing file lists 479 residential buildings on Avenue U holding 1,290 homes, with 9 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
Since 2021, 337 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 95, with traffic safety at 39. A 39 on traffic safety places Avenue U in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 93 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 85. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. Avenue U is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 1,290 homes on file, 131 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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Avenue U runs through Marine Park, Madison and Gravesend & Homecrest, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).